PORTRAITS 


BY EARLY AMERICAN ARTISTS 
OF THE SEVENTEENTH, EIGHTEENTH 
AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES 


COLLECTED BY 
THOMAS B. CLARKE 


EXHIBITED AT 
THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART 
FAIRMOUNT 
1928 


The Museum considers itself particularly fortunate in 
securing Mr. Clarke's generous consent to show his entire 
collection of early American paintings in its inaugural 
exhibition. 


Thus, this collection, quietly formed over a period of 
thirty years and known only to a privileged few, may be 
seen by the public for the first time. It will be obvious to 
those who see it or who read these pages, that it displays 
with unique completeness the history of American patint- 
ing from its very beginnings until deep in the nineteenth 


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of works from the very beginnings of American art in the 
seventeenth century, the three portraits of Washington 
painted from life, and the remarkable group of Stuarts, 
unequalled anywhere even in a public collection. It ts a 
matter of move than local interest that so many of the 
pictures were painted in Philadelphia, so long the metrop- 
olis and the capital of this country, and that thirty-six 
ave known to have been painted in Pennsylvania. 


The Museum is indebted to Mr. Clarke for the prepa- 
ration of this catalogue, with its valuable historical 
notes and biographical material, so much of which ts 
not available elsewhere. 


FISKE KIMBALL, Director 


ARTISTS REPRESENTED 


ALLston, WASHINGTON 
ALEXANDER, FRANCIS 
Ames, Ezra 

Ames, Josep A. 
Aupuson, JouN J. (¢wo) 
Bensripcz, Henry (two) 
BLACKBURN, JOSEPH 
Brincezs, CHARLES 
Brown, Maruer (three) 
CuarK, ALVAN 
CLaYPoLe, JAMES 
Coptey, Joun S. (four) 
Courturisr, Henri (two) 
DritaNnoy, ABRAHAM 
Dunwap, WILLIAM 
Duranp, Asner B. (two) 
Duvensck, Franx (two) 
Douycxincx, Evert, ist 
Duycx1ncx, GERRET 
Doycxincx, Evert, 3rd 
Duycxinck, GERARDUS 
Earz, Ratrn (two) 
Eart, Raupx E. W. 
E1cunoxtz, Jacos (four) 


E.uiort, Caaruss L, (two) 


Emmons, NATHANIEL 
Fexe, Ropert (two) 
FRoTHINGHAM, JAMES 
Furton, Rosert (three) 
HarpinGc, CHESTER 
Hegarty, Georcs P. A. 
HERRING, JAMES 
Hessgxius, Joun 

Hicks, THomas 
Huntineton, D. (three) 
Inman, Henry (four) 
Jarvis, Joun WEsLEY 
Jounson, Davip 
Jounson, Eastman 


1779-1843 
1800-1880 
1768-1836 
1816-1872 
1785-1851 
1744-1812 


18th Century 
18th Century 


1761-1831 
1804-1887 
1720-1796 
1737-1815 
Died 1664 


18th Century 


1766-1839 
1796-1886 
1848-1919 
1621-1702. 
1660-1710 
1677-1727 
1695-1742 
1751-1801 
1788-1837 
1776-1842 
1812-1868 
1704-1740 
170§-1750 
1786-1864 
1765-1815 
1792-1866 
1813-1894 
1796-1867 
1728-1778 
1823-1890 
1816-1906 
1801-1846 
1780-1839 
1827-1908 
1824-1906 


Jounson, JouNn 
JoHNston, HENRIETTA 
Joverr, Matruew H. 
Kine, Cares Brrp 
KRiIMMEL, Jonn Lewis 
Lamspin, Jamzs Reip 
Lgeutze, EMaNuEL 
Matsong, Epwarp G. 
Marcuant, Epwarp D. 
Marg, JoHN 

Mercatre, Ev1as 

Monrss, S. F. B. (three) 
Mount, Witu1aM S. 
NzgaG iz, Joun (eight) 
Peatz, Cuarrzs W. (three) 
Pratz, JAMES 

Pzatz, REMBRANDT ( four) 
PetyaM, Henry 
PELHAM, PETER 

Ping, Ropert EpcEz 
Pratt, MatTHEW 
Quipor, JoHN 

Reap, WILLIAM 

SavacR, EpwarRD 
Sminzrt, Joun (four) 
Spencer, Francis R. 
Srrycxgr, J. G. (two) 
Sruart, G. (twenty-nine) 
Sutty, THomas (#en) 
Tuaus, Jeremian (three) 
TRUMBULL, JOHN 
VANDERLYN, JOHN (two) 
VANDERLYN, PIETER 
Watpo, Samugt L. (two) 
Watson, JOHN 
WerTMULLER, ApotpH U. 
West, Benjamin (three) 


1752-1818 
Died 1728 
1787-1827 
1785-1862 
1787-1821 
1807-1889 
1816-1868 
1777-1807 
1806-1887 


18th Century 


1785-1834 
1791-1872. 
1807-1868 
1796-1865 
1741-1827 
1749-1831 
1778-1860 
1749-1806 
1684-1751 

1730-1788 
1734-1805 
1801-1881 
1607-1679 
1761-1817 
1688-1751 
1806-1875 
Died 1687 
175571828 
1783-1872 
1719-1774 
1756-1843 
1775-1852 
1687-1778 
1783-1861 
1685-1768 
1751-1811 
1738-1820 


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77 ARTISTS 


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GILBERT STUART'S FAMILY 
AND PAINTING-ROOM—THE ARTIST AND 
MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY 


PAINTED IN BOSTON IN 1827 
Height 14 inches; width 17 inches 


Allston is seated at an easel in Stuart’s painting-room, palette in 
hand, but has turned toward the spectator, and Stuart sits before 
him with his back to the spectator, his face seen in profile toward 
_ Allston. Stuart’s three daughters are in front of him, Anne at his 
elbow, Mrs. Stebbins carrying her small child, and Jane Stuart 
looking over Mrs. Stebbins’ shoulder. At the left of the group are 
Mr. Stebbins, cane in arm, and Gilbert Stuart Newton holding a 
yale and a third unidentified figure. Mrs. Stuart, on the right, 

ends over Allston’s chair, and behind her on the wall hangs a 
portrait of the Stuarts’ deceased son, Charles. 


by Washington Allston (1779-1843) 


Washington Allston, a South Carolinian, born at Waccamaw, 
on November 5, 1779, was sent to Rhode Island as a child, his 
native climate not agreeing with him. He was educated at Har- 
vard and returned to South Carolina, where he painted some 
religious compositions. In 1801 he went with Malbone to England 
and studied under West at the Royal Academy. In the following 
year he exhibited three pictures at Somerset House and sold one of 
them. Three years later he accompanied Vanderlyn to France, 
reveling there in the art treasures Napoleon had accumulated from 
all Europe and developing the richness of color that came to 
characterize many of his paintings. He visited Italy, came back to 
America and married, and again in 1811 returned to England, 
taking with him S. F. B. Morse as a pupil. After a few years he 
returned home, a success on both sides of the ocean. He died at 
Cambridge, Mass., July 9, 1843. 


SARAH BLAKE STURGIS 
(1815-1882) 


MEMBER OF THE SHAW AND PARKMAN FAMILIES OF BOSTON 
PAINTED IN BOSTON IN 1835 
Height 2134 inches; width 18 inches 
by Francis Alexander (1800-1880) 


Francis Alexander was born in Connecticut in 1800 and died in — 


1880. Began painting in water color when quite young and 
studied under Alexander Robertson in New York. Later went to 
Providence and then opened his studio in Boston, where among 
many sitters the most famous was Daniel Webster. In 1831 he 
visited Europe, finally settling in Florence, where he remained 
until his death. Alexander wrote a short autobiography published 
in Dunlap’s ‘‘History.’’ He went to New York for a brief period 
in 1820 and again the following year for study. He then went to 
Boston with a letter to Gilbert Stuart from John Trumbull, where 
he advanced rapidly in his painting under Stuart's influence. 


MARIA GANSEVOORT MELVILLE 
(1791-1872) 


DAUGHTER OF GENERAL PETER GANSEVOORT OF ALBANY, N. Y,. 
SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF THE NOVELIST HERMAN MELVILLE 


Height 29 inches; width 24 inches 
by Ezra Ames (1768-1836) 


Ezra Ames was an Albany painter of modest achievements, 


who, says Tuckerman’s ‘‘Book of the Artists’’ (page 68), “turned 


his attention to portraiture and gained distinction in 1812 by 
exhibiting his portrait of Governor George Clinton at the Penn- 
sylvania Academy. During several years he executed portraits of 
the Western members of the Legislature, and these, with other 
specimens of his imitative skill, are widely scattered in New York 
State.’’ He was born in 1768 and died in 1836. 


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GEORGE SOUTHWARD 
(1803-1876) 
AN ARTIST OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 
Height 30 inches; width 24 inches 
by Joseph A. Ames (1816-1872) 


Born in New Hampshire in 1816, and died in New York in 1872. 
Began his career by painting portraits in his native state, before 
Opening a studio in Boston. He studied in Rome, painting a por- 
trait of Pope Pius IX, which was greatly admired. On his return, 
he painted portraits for some time in Boston, and finally settled in 
New York, where he died. He was elected Associate of the National 
Academy of Design in 1869 and in 1870 became an Academician. 


HENRY CLAY 
777-1852) 

FAMOUS ORATOR AND STATESMAN 
UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM 1806-1852 
Height 303 inches; width 2534 inches 

by John J. Audubon (1785-1851) 


ANNA CORA MOWATT 
(1819-1870) 
DRAMATIST AND ACTRESS 
Height 24 inches; width 18 inches 
by John James Audubon (1785-1851) 


John James Audubon came to New York in August 1824, Sully 
having given him letters to Stuart, Allston and Trumbull. At this 
time Audubon met John Vanderlyn and stood to him for the fig- 
ure of Vanderlyn’s portrait of General Jackson. Audubon visited 
Meadville, Penn., in 1824, and while in that city painted several 
portraits. Late in 1824, he went to Louisiana. He remained in the 
South until May 1826, when he again started for Europe, landing 
at Liverpool on July 21. He was at once invited to show his draw- 
ings at the Royal Academy. He made several trips to the United 
States between 1829 and 1839. He died in New York, January 27, 
1851. 


JAMES vr LANCEY 
(1732-1800) 
STATESMAN AND CAPITALIST 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1772 


Height 40 inches; width 30% inches 


James de Lancey was the eldest son of Lieut.-Gov. James 
de Lancey and his wife Ann Heathcote de Lancey. He was born in 
1732 and died in 1800. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge 
and entered the Army on his return to New York at the beginning 
of the French and Indian War. He served at Fort Niagara and was 
aide to Gen. Abercrombie at Ticonderoga. At his father’s death 
in 1760 he retired from the Army to manage his estate and enter 
politics. He was then the richest man in America and the head of 
the Conservatives, called after him the de Lancey Party. 


by Henry Benbridge (1744-1812) 


OLIVER DE LANCEY 
(1718-1785) 
GENERAL IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. LATER A 
WEALTHY MERCHANT IN NEW YORK CITY 


PAINTED IN 1771 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 


This portrait of Gen. De Lancey by Benbridge is very unusual, 
being the only one which it is believed is signed and dated. It may 
have been painted in Philadelphia where the General had many 
friends and connections. His wife’s family lived there. His nephew, ~ 
Capt. James De Lancey, whose portrait was also painted by Ben- 
bridge (in 1772) was married on August 17, 1771, to Margaret 
Allen of Philadelphia. 


by Henry Benbridge (1744-1812) 


Henry Benbridge was born in Philadelphia, May 20, 1744, and 
died in February, 1812. At an early age he went to Italy, where 
he studied under Battoni and under Mengs, and progressed so well 
that in 1768 he was sent to Corsica, on the order of James Boswell 
of Auchinleck, to paint a whole-length portrait of Gen. Pascal 
Paoli, which Benbridge, on reaching London the following year, 
exhibited at the Free Society of Artists. While in London, Ben- . 
bridge painted a portrait of Doctor Franklin which, with another 
portrait, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1770. Later he 
returned to Philadelphia, and on January 18, 1771, he was elected 
a member of the American Philosophical Society. Benbridge set- 
tled in Charleston, S. C., where he painted many of the portraits 
found in the South attributed to Copley. 


GENERAL JOSHUA WINSLOW 

, (1727-1801) 

SERVED WITH DISTINCTION IN THE CAPTURE OF 
LOUISBURG IN 1745. GENERAL IN THE 


EXPEDITION TO ACADIA IN 1755 
PAINTED IN I750 


Height 30% inches; width 25 inches 
by Joseph Blackburn 


In the bulletin of the Cleveland Museum issued November, 1919, 
the following biographical notes are given: 

“This artist has until recently been known by the name of 
Jonathan B. Blackburn, in spite of the fact that all of his signed 
works thus far discovered bear, with one exception, the signature 
I. Blackburn. As land J were in Blackburn’s time used interchange- 
ably, the writer was in doubt as to which was the initial of his 
Christian name until he discovered last spring in a private house 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., a portrait signed Jos. Blackburn, which set- 
tled the point. No portrait by him has been found bearing a date 
earlier than 1754. The portrait of Joshua Winslow in the present 
exhibition is signed and dated 1750, which makes this the earliest 
Blackburn known to date and none are known after 1761, and it is 
the writer's opinion that he was, judging from his name, of low- 
land Scotch birth or ancestry, and from the character of his work 
that he was English taught, and that these two dates confine the 
period of his sojourn in this country. Neither his birth nor death 
dates have been found, nor is it known whither he went after 
leaving, nor why he left.’’ 

There are about eighty portraits by Blackburn in America, and 
most of these bear his signature. 


ANNE BROWN HAMILTON 


WIFE OF ANDREW HAMILTON (1676-1741), ATTORNEY 
GENERAL OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1734, ARCHITECT OF 
THE STATE HOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA, 1729 


Height 41 inches; width 30 inches 
by Charles Bridges 


Charles Bridges, an Englishman, painted in Virginia from 1730 
to 1750. Most of the portraits in the South attributed to Sir God- 
frey Kneller were by Bridges. He painted as late as 1750. Many of 
his portraits are extant and almost always in case of women may 
be known by a lock of hair resting on or in front of the shoulder. 
Bridges was trained in the British School, and shows by his work 
the influence of Lely and Kneller. 


Mrs. Hamilton died about 1736 according to the statement of 
C. P. Keith in his Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania. 

The miniature of Andrew Hamilton which Mrs. Hamilton is 
holding in this portrait is perhaps the only true likeness in exis- 
tence, as the published engravings, etc., are all from a copy of an 
original which was destroyed. This copy was made by Wert- 
miiller about fifty years after the death of Hamilton. 

Their only daughter, Margaret Hamilton, married in 1734 Wil- 
liam Allen, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and Mayor of Philadel- 
phia. Her portrait was painted in Philadelphia in 1746 by James 
Claypole. 


THOMAS DAWSON 
(1725-1813) 
VISCOUNT CREMORNE 1785. MARRIED THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF 
WILLIAM PENN. PAINTED IN LONDON IN 1788 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Mather Brown (1761-1831) 


ALEXANDER HAMILTON 
(1767-1852) 
TENTH DUKE OF HAMILTON, SCOTLAND 
FROM THE HAMILTON PALACE COLLECTION 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Mather Brown (1761-1831) 


WILLIAM VANS MURRAY 
(1762-1803 ) 
PAINTED IN LONDON IN 1787 


MINISTER OF UNITED STATES TO THE NETHERLANDS, 1797 
ENVOY TO FRANCE IN 1799 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Mather Brown (1761-1831) 


Mather Brown was born in Boston in 1761. He was the son of 
Gawen Brown, a noted clockmaker, whose portrait was painted 
in this country by J. S. Copley in 1763. Brown went to Paris in his 
nineteenth year with letters to Benjamin Franklin there, and to 
J. S. Copley in London. In 1781, he received instruction from Ben- 
jamin West, through the influence of Franklin, and later became 
acquainted with Gilbert Stuart. Many well-known Americans and 
Europeans sat to Mather Brown for their portraits, among them 
Jefferson, Adams, and Tom Paine. He painted during his long 
stay the portraits of the Royal family. He exhibited in the Royal 
Academy for nearly fifty years, and died in London in 1831. 


BARNABUS CLARK 
(1799-1890) 
ENGRAVER AND BROTHER OF THE ARTIST 
PAINTED IN 1821 


Height 271% inches; width 22 inches 
by Alvan Clark (1804-1887) 


Alvan Clark was born in Ashfield, Mass., March 8, 1804. He 
Was an engraver and was employed for a short time in Boston, 
where he made water colors and India ink portraits. He also 
painted in Providence, R. I., New York, and Fall River, Mass. 
In 1835 he commenced to make miniatures and large portraits. At 
forty years of age Clark became interested in telescopes and made 
the first achromatic lenses manufactured in this country. 

Alvan Clark and Chester Harding each painted the other’s like- 
ness. Clark also painted a portrait of Mrs. Chester Harding. 

He died August 19, 1887, in Cambridge, Mass. 


MARGARET HAMILTON ALLEN 
(Died 1760) 
WIFE OF WILLIAM ALLEN (1705-1780), THE MAYOR 
OF PHILADELPHIA, 1735, AND CHIEF JUSTICE 
OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1750-1774 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1746 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by James Claypole* (1720-1796) 


James Claypole was the earliest native artist of Pennsylvania. 
He was born in Philadelphia, January 27, 1720 and died in the 
West Indies about 1796. He was the son of Joseph Claypoole of 
Philadelphia and his second wife, Edith Ward. Joseph Claypoole 
was the First Warden of Christ Church, Philadelphia, and was 
“concerned in the promoting and assisting in the building of 
Christ Church and contributed much toward it.’’ As Mrs. Allen’s 
family owned a vault in Christ Church and she herself was mat- 
tied there it is not unlikely that she was acquainted with the 
artist son of the First Warden of the Church. Joseph Claypoole, 
the artist’s father, was born in 1677 and died before May 3, 1744. 
He was the son of James Claypoole, friend of Penn, Patentee of 
Pennsylvania and Register General of the Colony. This might also 
indicate an acquaintanceship between the family of the artist and 
sitter, as Mrs. Allen’s daughter Anne married John Penn, and her 
family had always been on terms of friendship with the Penns. 
The first James Claypoole was a wealthy merchant. His son J oseph, 
father of the artist, was also a man of wealth, as he was a large 
property owner in Philadelphia. 


*In signing his name the painter dropped one ‘‘o’’ from the usual spelling. 


James Claypole painted portraits in Philadelphia before 1750; 
little is known of his paintings, but he was the instructor of his = 
nephew, Matthew Pratt, whose autobiographical notes statethat 
he was apprenticed “‘to my uncle James Claypoole, limner and a 
portrait painter in general’’ in 1749. His work shows that he was ot 
guided by a painter of no mean acquirements. Claypole abandoned * 
art for public life and was High Sheriff of Philadelphia during the 
Revolutionary War. Claypole was married twice. His first wife 
whom he married May 24, 1742 was Rebecca White. His second 
wife was Mary Chambers. His daughter Elizabeth married Timo- 
thy Matlack, the soldier and patriot of Philadelphia, whose por- 
trait was painted by Charles Willson Peale. His daughter, Mary, 
married James Peale, the artist, brother of Charles Willson Peale, 
and his cousin John Claypoole was the husband of the celebrated 
Betsy Ross. 

The portrait is inscribed on the back of the canvas ‘Margaret 
Allen. Drawn and colored by Claypole, Philadelphia, 1746.” 

Charles Willson Peale, in a letter mentions “James Claypole 
whose paintings he examined at his home in Philadelphia in 1762."’ 

Mrs. Allen’s mother, Anne Brown Hamilton, was painted by 
Charles Bridges, and the portrait is in this exhibition. Wy. 


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GAWEN BROWN ae q 

(1719-1801) a ‘ 

FATHER OF THE AMERICAN ARTIST, MATHER BROWN 4 
(1761-1831) i 

He was a famous clock-maker of Boston, Mass. The clock in a 


the Old South Church in Boston was installed by him in 1774. 
PAINTED IN BOSTON IN 1763 


Height 28 inches; width 22 inches 
by John Singleton Copley (1737-1815) 


JANE BROWNE 
(1734-1802) 


MARRIED HON. SAMUEL LIVERMORE, 1759 
PAINTED IN PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1756 


Height 30 inches; width 35 inches 
by John Singleton Copley (1737-1815) 


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HENRY LAURENS 
(1724-1792) 
PRESIDENT OF THE THIRD CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 1777 
PAINTED IN LONDON IN 1782 
Height 50 inches; width 40 inches 
by John Singleton Copley (1737-1815) 


JEREMIAH TAYLOR 


A DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH SURGEON 
(1759-1826) 

Height 34 inches; width 27 inches 

by John Singleton Copley (1737-1815) 


The artist, John Singleton Copley, was born in Boston in 1737, 
and at the age of fifteen painted a portrait of his stepfather, Peter 
Pelham. When he was twenty-nine he was for the first time an 
exhibitor at London, through a portrait sent over to Benjamin 
West. Copley was elected a member of the Society of Arts of Great 
Britain. Charles Willson Peale sought instruction from him in 
1768, so rapid had been Copley’s rise in America, and later Trum- 
bull wanted to study under him. In 1774 Copley went to England 
and Italy, settling in London in 1775, and remaining there until 
his death in 1815. 


FREDERICK PHILIPSE 
(1626-1702) 
ORIGINAL OWNER OF PHILIPSE MANOR, YONKERS, N. Y. 
PAINTED IN 1674 


Height 28% inches; width 2314 inches 
by Henri Couturier (Died 1684) 


OLOFF STEVENSE VAN CORTLANDT 
(1610-1684) 


PROMINENT IN THE EARLY LIFE OF 
NEW AMSTERDAM 


Height 2834 inches; width 23 inches 


Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt, founder of the family, arrived in 
New Amsterdam, March 28, 1638, on board the Haering, a man 
of war belonging to the West India Company. He was a soldier 
in the service of the company but did not remain long in this 
_ Capacity as he was shortly promoted by his friend and fellow 

traveler, Director Kieft, to the post of Commissary of Cargoes 


(July 1639). In 1649, his experience as a soldier was of service 
when he became captain of the Burger guard, or train band. 

Through his long career, he held many public offices beginning 
in 1645 when he became a member of the Board of Eight Men 
and in 1649 of the Nine Men of which he became president. In 
1654 and 1655 he was Schepen, the next year he became Burgo- 
master, which office he held intermittently until 1665 after the 
capture by the English. 

In 1666, 1667 and 1673 he was Alderman. He also served on 
several commissions notably that which negotiated the terms of 
surrender to the English in 1664, the Hartford settlement of the 
Connecticut boundary dispute in 1663 and John Scott's claim to 
Long Island in 1664. . 

This portrait of him is signed like that of his son-in-law Philipse, 
with the monogram of the artist, Henri Couturier, which also 
may be seen on a ship register dated May 5, 1663, by which Cou- 
turier acknowledged the receipt of goods delivered to him. 


by Henri Couturier 


According to the lettering on this portrait it was painted and 
signed by the monogram interlaced, the first two 
initials being those of the E¢ artist Couturier. Searching 
for proof that the portrait was by him, this monogram 
was found on a ship register of a “‘list of goods’ sent to New 
“Amstel on the South River of New Netherland on May 5, 1663, 
from Amsterdam. In the margin next to the entry concerning the 
shipment of goods from Jacob Coetrier to Hendrick Coetrier is _ 
the reproduction of this monogram. It was evidently placed there 
in acknowledgment of the receipt of goods, just as today we sign 
for the delivery of goods by express, etc. Nearly all the other items 
in this list are initialed in this manner by the recipients. Jacob 
Coetrier was the son of the artist, and is listed as his second son 
in the baptismal records of the Reformed Dutch Church, New 
York. Couturier’s children appear to have been mature at the date 
of baptism as all three were baptized on the same day. This fact 
is supported by the reference to Jacob consigning goods to his 
father in 1663, the year after he was baptized and also by the 
record of Isaac, the artist’s oldest son signing the Remonstrance 
to the Director-General in 1664. These children may have been 
born abroad, or perhaps in Delaware, where their father spent a 
great part of his life and became a distinguished citizen, peer 
office of Councillor and Burgomaster of that province. This woul 
account for their not having been baptized earlier. 

The various spellings of the name are very confusing, extracts 
copied from documents have been found with the name spelled 
two different ways even in the same document. He died in 1684. 


PETER R. LIVINGSTON 
1737-1794) 
PRESIDENT OF THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS 
1776-1777 
MEMBER OF THE ASSEMBLY, 1780-1781 
COLONEL OF MILITIA FROM THE MANOR 


OF LIVINGSTON DURING THE 
REVOLUTIONARY WAR 


PAINTED IN NEW YORK IN 1772 
Height 19 inches; width 15 inches 
by Abraham Delanoy (circa 1740-1785) 


Abraham Delanoy, a native of New York, was born about 
1740. Studied art under Benjamin West in London and in January, 
1771, advertised his profession as a portrait painter in New York. 
He died in 1785 or 1786. 

We know that the family of Col. Peter R. Livingston and that 
of Delanoy were known to each other as Col. Peter’s son, Peter 
W. Livingston, married Elizabeth Beekman, a relative of the 
artist Abraham Delanoy. She was a daughter of Gerard William 
Beekman and a granddaughter of William Beekman and Catherine 
Peters Delanoy. The latter was the daughter of Abraham Delanoy 
and Cornelia Jacobse Toll, widow of Evert Duyckinck, 2nd. 


JOHN HOWARD PAYNE 
(1792-1852) 
POET, DRAMATIST AND CELEBRATED ACTOR. AUTHOR OF 


“‘HOME, SWEET HOME’ 
PASTEL EXECUTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1809 


Height 16 inches; width 1334 inches 


Payne has the distinction of being the first native American 
Hamlet. In May, 1809, having had only a few months’ experience 
on the stage, he appeared for the first time in this Shakspearian 
character at the Park Theatre, New York. William Dunlap was 
the manager of the theatre, acting in this capacity from 1806 un- 
til 1812. 

by William Dunlap (1766-1839) 


William Dunlap was born in Perth Amboy, N. J., February 19, 
1766, and died in New York City, September 28, 1839. He was an 
author and manager as well as a portrait painter. He began paint- 
ing portraits at the age of seventeen. At that age in 1783, he was 
accorded an opportunity to make a portrait in pastel of General 
Washington at Rocky Point, near Princeton. In 1784 Dunlap 


went to London to study art with Benjamin West. He returned 
to America in 1787, settled in New York and painted a number of 
portraits. 

He wrote and published in New York in 1834, a ““History of 
the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States,” 
the earliest book on the subject. 


CHRISTIAN GOBRECHT 
(1785-1844) 
AMERICAN ENGRAVER AND INVENTOR 
Height 3414 inches; width 2734 inches 
by Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) 


GOUVERNEUR KEMBLE 
(1786-1875) 
U. S. CONSUL AT CADIZ, SPAIN 
MEMBER OF CONGRESS (1839-1841) 


Height 34 inches; width 27 inches 
by Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) 


Asher Brown Durand was born in Jefferson, N. J., August 21, 
1796, and died in South Orange, N. J., August 17, 1886. His first 
instruction in art was in the workshop of his father, a jeweler, — 
where Durand engraved the initials on silverware. He then took 
up engraving, and making a considerable success of it, was ap- 
prenticed to Peter Maverick, an engraver in New York City. He 
achieved considerable distinction through his engravings made — 
from paintings by the best artists of the day. Being dissatisfied 
with engraving, he gradually took up painting, and in 1835 de- 
voted himself to portraits and landscapes. He painted a number 
of excellent portraits. He was one of the founders of the New 
York Academy of Design in 1826 and was its President from 1845 
to 1861. 


LESLIE PEASE BARNUM 
(1846-1915) 
UNITED STATES VICE-CONSUL IN MUNICH, 1875-1877 
PAINTED IN 1876 


Height 22 inches; width 16 inches 
by Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) 


WILLIAM GEDNEY BUNCE 
(1840-1916) 


A NOTED MARINE PAINTER 
PORTRAIT MADE IN MUNICH CIRCA 1878 


Height 30 inches; width 26 inches 
by Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) 


Frank Duveneck, painter, sculptor, etcher and teacher. Was 
born at Covington, Ky., in 1848, and received his early training 
at a monastery near Pittsburgh. He also studied in Munich. He 
was made a National Academician in 1906, and was a member of 
the Society of American Artists of New York, Cincinnati Art 
Club, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died 
January 2, 1919. 


STEPHANUS VAN CORTLANDT 
(1643-1700) 


FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN MAYOR 
OF NEW YORK CITY, 1677 
FIRST LORD OF THE MANOR 
OF CORTLANDT, 1697 


PAINTED IN 1693 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Evert Duyckinck, 1st (1621-1702) 


Evert Duyckinck, 1st, came to New Amsterdam in 1638 from 
Holland. He is variously described in the records of the day as a 
limner, painter, glazier and burner of glass. He married in 1646 
Hendtickic Simons from Noordthorn. Was a member of the Dutch 
Church in 1649 and resided then and for many years in Hoogh 
Street (now Stone Street). He became fire warden in 1674, and 
was admitted a freeman of the city in 1698. 

As late as 1700 the records refer to his glass making, and in 
certain grants of land under water made to Evert Duyckinck and 
his son Gerret, Evert is called a limner, and Gerret a painter. 

There is a portrait of Lieut.-Gov. William Stoughton by Evert 
Duyckinck, 1st, in the Boston Atheneum. 


ANN SINCLAIR CROMMELIN 
(1691-1743) 
DAUGHTER OF MARYKEN DUYCKINCK 
PAINTED IN 1725 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Evert Duyckinck, 3rd (1677-1727) 

Evert Duyckinck, 3rd, was born in 1677 and died in 1727. He 
was the son of Evert Duyckinck, 2nd. The artist and subject of 
this portrait, Ann Sinclair Crommelin, were first cousins and were 
both grandchildren of Evert Duyckinck, 1st. The Duyckincks 


were the most important family of painters yet found in Colonial 
America. 


JAMES pELANCEY 
(2703-1760) 

CHIEF JUSTICE AND LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR 
OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK 
PAINTED IN 1728 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Gerardus Duyckinck (1695-1742) 


Gerardus Duyckinck was the son of Gerret Duyckinck (1660- 
1710). He was baptized June 19, 1695, and was married to Johanna 
Van Brugh, August 21, 1720. He was admitted as a freeman of the 
city in 1731 and there described as a limner. He died November 
5» 1742. 


ANNE VAN CORTLANDT 
(MRS. STEPHEN DELANCEY ) 
(1676-1741) 

PAINTED IN 1699 
Height 2934 inches; width 24% inches 


Anne Van Cortlandt was the daughter of Stephanus and Ger- 
trude Schuyler Van Cortlandt. She was born in 1676 and died in 
1741. In 1700 she married Stephen deLancey. This portrait of her 
resembles very strongly those of her sisters, Elizabeth, wife of 
the Rev. William Skinner of Perth Amboy, and Gertrude, wife 
of Col. Henry Beekman, which are reproduced in the ‘‘Manor of 
Van Cortlandt.”’ 

The “ian is signed and dated Gt. Duyckinck, 1699. The 
latter date was the year previous to her marriage to Stephen 


deLancey and the year before the death of her father Stephanus 
Van Cortlandt whose portrait was painted in 1693 by Evert 
Duyckinck, the father of Gerret. 


by Gerret Duyckinck (1660-1710) 


Gerret Duyckinck was the son of Evert Duyckinck and was 
baptized age 11, 1660. He married Maria Abeel of Albany, July 
6, 1683, and resided in Hoogh (now Stone Street). For many years 
he was assistant Alderman and in 1689 became identified with 
Leisler’s government as a member of his council, and was promi- 
nent during those exciting times. Leisler appointed him Captain 
of foot for the North Ward of New York on December 16, 1689, 
and in 1690 a member of the Court of Admiralty. He was admitted 
as a freeman of the city in 1699. Gerret Duyckinck is referred to 
by Jasper Dankers, a Labadist Father in his diary under date of 
Match 7, 1679, as follows: ‘“They had built a new church in the 
Hysopus, of which the glass had been made and painted in the 
City, by the father of our mate, Evert Duiken, whose other son, 
Gerret, did most of the work. This Gerret Duiken had to take 
the glass to the Hysopus, and having heard we had a mind to go 
there, he requested our company, which we would not refuse him 
when the time came. He promised to teach me to draw.”’ 

And again when he landed at the Hysopus on May 7th he 
“found Gerret, the glass maker, there with his sister. He was 
engaged putting the glass in their new church.” 

He died about 1710, having attained a position of considerable 
social, financial and political importance. 


THOMAS EARL 
(1737-1819) 
COUSIN OF THE ARTIST RALPH EARL 
GUNMAKER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 


HE LIVED AT CHERRY VALLEY, MASS., WHERE HE WAS 
PAINTED IN 1800 


Height 371% inches; width 33 inches 
by Ralph Earl (1751-1801) 


SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH 
(1750-1819) 
PAINTED IN 1798 
Height 30 inches; width 24 inches 


Founder and First President of Hampden-Sidney College; 1775- 
1779. President of Princeton College; 1794-1812. 


In 1821, Susan Smith, daughter of the subject, gave this portrait 
to the Rev. Dr. Beasley, who was a personal friend of the sitter, 
who had previously written a memoir of the life of Samuel Stan- 
hope Smith, which was published with a collection of his sermons. 

In September, 1847, this portrait was sold by the widow of Dr. 
Beasley to Edward R. Lyman. The receipt for this portrait reads: 

Sept. 25, 1847. 

Received of Edward R. Lyman the sum of one hundred dollars 
for the portrait of Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith painted by Ralph 
Earl, the same being the one which in 1821 was given to my 
husband, the late Dr. Frederick Beasley, by Mrs. Susan Solomons, 
daughter of Dr. Smith. 

Maria Beasley. 


Since the date of this receipt (1847), the portrait remained in 
the Lyman family until 1918. 


by Ralph Earl (2751-1801) 


Ralph Earl was the son of Ralph and Phebe (Whittemore) was 
born May 11, 1751, probably in the town of Shrewsbury, Worces- 
ter County, Mass. He went to London and studied painting under 
Benjamin West, and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1783. 
Earl returned to America about 1786, where he continued to paint 
many portraits until his death. He died August 16, 1801, at Bol- 
ton, Conn. 


ANDREW JACKSON 
(1767-1845 ) 
SEVENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1829-1837 
MAJOR-GENERAL, UNITED STATES ARMY, 1814 


Height 30 inches; width 2534 inches 
by Ralph E. W. Earl (1788-1837) 


This portrait was painted from life, at the Hermitage, for John 
Decker, who served with Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. 

Ralph E. W. Earl was born in 1788, in England, and was the 
son of the painter, Ralph Earl (1751-1801), by his second wife. 
He came to America with his father, but returned to England to 
study, 1809. He was in Paris in 1814, and returned to the United 
States in 1815, landing in Georgia. He went to Nashville, and in 
1818, married Jane Caffery, a niece of Mrs. Rachel Jackson. His 
wife lived only a few months. He never married again but con- 
tinued to live with General Jackson until his death, September 
16, 1837. He was buried in the garden of the Hermitage. When 
Jackson was President, he lived at the White House, and when 


Jackson retired from the Presidency, in 1837, he returned with 


him to the Hermitage, and died the same year. 


WILLIAM CLARK FRAZER 
(1776-1838) 
CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, 
1836-1838 
PAINTED IN LANCASTER, PA., IN 1835 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Jacob Eichholez (1776-1842) 


MRS. PHOEBE FREEMAN 
(1812-1850) 
WIFE OF DR. C. FREEMAN OF LANCASTER, PA. 
Height 27 inches; width 22 inches 
by Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842) 


HENRY EICHHOLTZ LEMAN 
(1812-1887) 


A MANUFACTURER, OF LANCASTER, PA. 
PAINTED IN 1833 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842) 


JAMES P. SMITH 
(1804-1888) 


WELL KNOWN MINIATURE PAINTER OF PHILADELPHIA 
PAINTED IN 1835 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by his friend Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842) 


Jacob Eichholtz was born in Lancaster, Pa., in 1776. He was 
an expert coppersmith, but early developed a talent for portrait 
painting. Early in the century he was aided by visiting artists, 
and when Sully visited there, Eichholtz offered him the use of his 
painting-room which was readily accepted, and in return Sully 
gave him what professional information he could. 

Later a Mr. Barton strongly urged him to visit Stuart at Boston. 
As a specimen of his work at that time he took with him his best- 
known portrait, that of Nicholas Biddle, with the U. S. Bank in 
the background, which was well received. On his return he set- 
tled in Philadelphia as a professional portrait painter remaining 
there for ten years. Among his subjects and sitters were Andrew 


Jackson, Chief Justices Marshall and Gibson, Governors Shulze, 
Porter and Ritner, and many of the foremost people of his day in 
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Harrisburg and Lancaster. He died May 
11, 1842 in Lancaster, Pa. 


CHARLES LORING ELLIOTT 
(1812-1868) 


Height 2534 inches; width 20% inches 
Self portrait when a young man 


WILLIAM S. MOUNT 
(1807-1868) 


THE PORTRAIT AND GENRE PAINTER 
_A PAINTING FROM LIFE 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Charles Loring Elliott (1812-1868) 


Charles Loring Elliott, who was born in Scipio, New York, in | 
December, 1812, worked in New York City, and died in Albany, 
his death occurring on September 25, 1868. He became, after the 
death of Henry Inman, the leading portrait painter in America. 
Inman had foreseen that he would, for, after a visit from Elliott, 
shortly before Inman’s death, the elder painter remarked: “When 
I am gone that young man will take my place. He has the true 
idea of portrait painting. ’’ 


JONATHAN BELCHER 
(1681-1757) 


GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE 
AND NEW JERSEY 
A FOUNDER OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, N. J. 
PAINTED IN BOSTON IN 1738 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Nathaniel Emmons (1704-1740) 


Born in Boston in 1704 and died there in 1740. This is the earli- 
est known portrait of a native governor painted by a native artist. 
Emmons had painted the Governor’s nephew, Andrew Oliver, and 
also his friend, Samuel Sewall. There are but few portraits by him 
that have been preserved, five only, including Governor Belcher 
being known today. Emmons occupied a house in Boston that 
after his death became the residence of the artist John Smibert. 
Nathaniel Emmons is believed to have been the earliest native 
born painter in Boston. This portrait has until recently been in 
the possession of Governor Belcher’s descendants. 


RUTH CUNNINGHAM 
(1729-1789) 
WIFE OF JAMES OTIS (1725-1783) PATRIOT AND LAWYER 


OF BOSTON 
PAINTED IN 1748 


Height 37 inches; width 2834 inches 
by Robert Feke (1705-1750) 


WILLIAMINA MOORE 


(1727-1809) 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1746 


Married Dr. Phineas Bond of Philadelphia in 1748. Dr. Bond 
was a celebrated physician, intimate friend of Franklin and one 
of the founders of the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. John 
Cadwalader of Philadelphia was their daughter and Lady Erskine 
their granddaughter. 


Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 
by Robert Feke (1705-1750) 


Robert Feke appeared at Newport, R. I., as a portrait painter 
about 1726. Under a lithographic copy of his own portrait the 
date of his birth is given as 1705 and the date of his death as 
1750. Feke is supposed to have died in the Barbadoes. He worked 
in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 
who met Feke at Newport in 1744, says in his ‘‘Itinerarium’’: 
“This man had exactly the phiz of a painter, having a long pale 
face, sharp nose, large eyes with which he looked upon you 
steadfastly, long curled black hair, a delicate white hand, and 
long fingers.”’ 


EBENEZER NEWHALL 


(1789-1878) 
GRADUATE OF HARVARD IN 1818 
RECTOR AND SCHOLAR 


Height 26 inches; width 20 inches 
by James Frothingham (1786-1864) 


James Frothingham was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1786 
and died there on January 6, 1864. His first painting was done in 
connection with the coach bodies built by his father. He had very 
meagre instruction in painting until about 1810, when he was the 
Seine of Stuart. Frothingham was quite busy for a time in Salem 
and Boston but was forced to move to New York City in 1826, 
where he spent most of the time painting until his death. A num- 
ber of his portraits of celebrities are owned by the City of New 
York. 


MAHLON DICKERSON 
(1770-1853) 
GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY 1815-1817, UNITED STATES SENATOR 


1817-1833, SECRETARY OF UNITED STATES NAVY 1834-1838 
PAINTED IN 1814 


Height 30 inches; width 24 inches 
by Robert Fulton (1765-1815) 


HENRY ECKFORD 
(1775-1832) 
FAMOUS NAVAL ARCHITECT 
PAINTED IN 1809 


Height 60 inches; width 4o inches 
by Robert Fulton (1765-1815 ) 


MARIAN (BEDELL) ECKFORD 
(1779-1840) 
HENRIETTA ECKFORD (1808-1828) 


WIFE AND CHILD OF HENRY ECKFORD, NAVAL ARCHITECT 
PAINTED IN 1809 


Height 60 inches; width 4o inches 
by Robert Fulton (1765-1815) 


Portrait painter and inventor, born in Little Britain (now Ful- 
ton), Lancaster County, Pa., in 1765. He died in New York in © 
1815. From 1782 to 1785 he painted portraits in Philadelphia. In 
1786 he went to England ae studied with West several years. In 
1794 he lived with Joel Barlow in Paris. From this period most of 
his time was taken up with invention, principally steam naviga- 
tion. These two portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Eckford and child in 
this exhibition, are the largest of his works and were painted in 
New York in 1809. Twenty-three portraits by Fulton, painted in 
this country and in Europe, were mentioned in the Hudson-Fulton 
catalogue, published for the Memorial Exhibition at the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art in 1909. 


CHESTER HARDING 
(1792-1866) 
PAINTED IN 1823 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
Self Portrait 


Chester Harding was born in Conway, Mass., September 1, 1792, 
and after trying other callings in that State and in Western New 
York, went to Pittsburgh, Pa., and took up painting. Self-taught, 
he soon became a successful portrait painter, both in this country 
and in London. Tuckerman, in his ‘‘Book of the Artists’’ says of 
him: “‘On the first of April, 1866, a genuine representative of the 
Western artist died in Boston, and his career may be regarded as 
the connecting link between the early and the present generation 
of American painters.” 


FRANKLIN PIERCE 
(1804-1869) 


FOURTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1853- 
1857. BRIGADIER-GENERAL IN WAR WITH MEXICO, 1847 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by G. P. A. Healy (1813-1894) 


Born in Boston in 1813, and died in Chicago in 1894. Portrait 
painter. Studied in Paris from 1836. Went to Chicago about 1858, 
where he was given a farm of 50 acres which eventually came into 
the city limits, and which he sold for a large price. With his 
family he went to Europe and remained long in Rome. His por- 
traits of distinguished people are numerous. He painted many in 
Chicago, Washington, and for Louis Philippe. He was an honor- 
ary member of the National Academy of Design. 


WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY 
(1789-1828) 
A CELEBRATED TRAGEDIAN 
Height 20 inches; width 15 inches 
by James Herring (1796-1867) 


James Herring was born in London, England, January 12, 1796. 
His father emigrated to the United States and settled in New York 
in 1804. The son began by coloring prints and maps, and removed 
to Philadelphia, where he entered into the business of coloring 
maps, but returned to New York and settled in Chatham Square 
as a portrait painter. He died in October, 1867. 


THOMAS JOHNSON 
(1732-1819) 
THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND 1777-1779; JUSTICE OF 
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT 1791-1793 


His son Thomas Jennings Johnson married Charlotte 
Hesselius, daughter of the artist who 
painted this portrait 


PAINTED IN 1768 
Height 50 inches; width 40 inches 
by John Hesselius (1728-1778) 

John Hesselius was an early artist of Annapolis, Maryland, and 
the first teacher of Charles Willson Peale. Few of his works have 
been identified, but those that have, prove him to have been an 
excellent painter. He was a son of the noted artist Gustavus 


Hesselius, who came to this country from Sweden. John Hesselius 
was born in Maryland in 1728 and died in 1778. 


STEPHEN FOSTER 


COMPOSER OF 
‘‘OLD FOLKS AT HOME,” ‘OLD KENTUCKY HOME’ 
‘“OLD BLACK JOE’ AND OTHER FAMOUS 
AMERICAN SONGS 


(1826-1864) 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Thomas Hicks, N. A. (1823-1890) 


Born in Pennsylvania in 1823. Commenced painting portraits 
when he was fifteen years of age. Went to Europe in 1845. Return- 
ing in 1849 to this country, he was elected a National Academician 
in 1851. He painted the portraits of many distinguished Ameri- 
cans, and died in 1890. 


JAMES HALL 
(1811-1898) 
NOTED NEW YORK STATE GEOLOGIST 
PAINTED IN 1856 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Daniel Huntington (1816-1906) 


JOHN EDWARDS HOLBROOK 
(1794-1871) 
ANATOMIST AND NATURALIST 
PAINTED IN 1856 


Height 28 inches; width 23 inches 
by Daniel Huntington (1816-1906) 


HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN 
(1813-1871) 
AUTHOR OF ‘‘BOOK OF THE ARTISTS” 
PAINTED IN 1866 


Height 27 inches; width 22 inches 
by Daniel Huntington (1816-1906) 

Daniel Huntington was born in New York in 1816 and died in 
1906. He was a pupil of S. F. B. Morse, and went to Europe in 
1839. In 1850 he held an exhibition of his works in New York. 
He was the third president of the National Academy of Design, 
being elected in 1862. From 1879 to 1895 he was President of The 
Century Association. During his long and active life he painted 
portraits of many distinguished people. 


CLARA BARTON 
(1821-1912) 
FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS 
PAINTED IN 1844 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Henry Inman (1801-1846) 


CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN 
(1806-1884) 


EDITOR, POET AND NOVELIST 
PAINTED IN 1841 


Height 34 inches; width 27 inches 
by Henry Inman (1801-1846) 


GEORGE POPE MORRIS 
(1802-1864) 


POET, AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST 
WROTE ‘‘WOODMAN SPARE THAT TREE 
AND OTHER POPULAR POEMS 


BRIGADIER-GENERAL OF STATE MILITIA 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Henry Inman (1801-1846) 


MRS. ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH 


AUTHOR AND ARDENT ADVOCATE OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS 
(1806-1893 ) 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Henry Inman (1801-1846) 


Henry Inman was born in Utica, 1801. Opened a studio in Vesey 
Street, New York City, in 1823. In 1826, he was elected Vice- 
president of the just established National Academy of Design. He 
was sent to England in 1844, commissioned to paint portraits of 
Wordsworth, Lord Macaulay, and Chalmers the preacher. He was 
so successful there that he was invited to remain, but he came 
home the following year to New York and died here January 17, 
1846. 


JAMES LAWRENCE 
(1781-1813 ) 

A DISTINGUISHED NAVAL OFFICER IN THE WAR OF 1812, WHO WAS 
MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE ‘‘CHESA- 
PEAKE’ AND THE ‘SHANNON’ IN BOSTON HARBOR, WHEN HE 
UTTERED THE EXPRESSION ““‘DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP.’ 
PAINTED IN 1807 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1839) 


The painter, John Wesley Jarvis, was born in England, at South 
Shields, on the Tyne, in 1780. He was a nephew of the great Meth- 
odist, after whom he was nated, and as an infant was left with 
his uncle, by his father, when the father emigrated to America, 
but the boy was brought here at the age of five years. Jarvis stud- 
ied some with Malbone, but was largely self-taught, and in in- 
structing himself, studied anatomy assiduously. Later, Inman was 
his pupil, and he took Inman with him to New Orleans. He painted 
many portraits, which Tuckerman observed may be found in manor 
houses of the South and Municipal halls of the East. He died in 
New York City in 1839. | 


EDWIN FORREST 
(1806-1872) 


AMERICAN ACTOR 
PAINTED IN 1871 


Height 24 inches; width 20 inches 
by David Johnson (1827-1908) 


David Johnson was born in New York, May 10, 1827. He was 
chiefly self-taught. He was one of the last survivors of the ‘‘Hud- 
son River School’’ of American landscape painters. He received a 
medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. He also 
painted portraits, among them one of his friends, the tragedian, 
Edwin Forrest, who was a frequent visitor to his New York studio. 
He was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 
1861. He died at Walden, Orange County, N. Y., January 30, 1908. 


JOSEPH WESLEY HARPER 
(1830-1896) 
PUBLISHER AND MEMBER OF HARPER BROTHERS FROM 1869 TO 
_ 1894, WHERE HE HAD CHARGE OF THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) 


Eastman Johnson, a native of Maine, where he was born in 
1824, began doing portraits in crayon when quite young, and at 
twenty-one he was in Washington pene portraits of national 
celebrities. He went to Europe and painted for several years and, 
returning, was elected to the National Academy in 1860. Among 
the portraits he painted were those of John Quincy Adams, Daniel 
Webster, Longfellow, Emerson, Presidents Arthur, Cleveland and 
Harrison, and William H. Vanderbilt, and the noted canvas in the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled “Two Men.”’ 


JOHN PECK 
(Born 1770) 


BOSTON SHIPBUILDER 
Height 25 inches; width 1834 inches 
by John Johnston (1752-1818) 


John Johnston was born in Boston in 1752, and died in 1818. He 
was the son of Thomas Johnston, who kept a shop in Brattle 
Street, where he sold colors, made charts, painted coats of arms, 
engraved portraits, music plates, etc. John Johnston had military 
service in the Revolution, reaching the rank of Major, and was 
an original member of the ‘‘Cincinnati.”’ 


ROBERT JOHNSON 
(2677-1735) 

LAST PROPRIETARY GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1717-1719 
FIRST ROYAL GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1725-1735 
PAINTED IN 1718 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Henrietta Johnston (Died 1728) 

Henrietta Johnston was the earliest artist of South Carolina 
and the first woman artist of America. She died in Charleston, 
S. C., in 1728. At the present time there are about twenty known 
works by her, nearly all being signed and dated. Eighteen of these 
ate portraits in pastel. Three of the pastels were painted in New 
York City in 1725 for Col. Moore, the original owner of this por- 


trait. This oil portrait of Robert Johnson is signed and dated 1718, 
which makes it a unique item. 


AUGUSTUS FIELDING HAWKINS 
(1798-1876) 
A BANK PRESIDENT OF LEXINGTON, KY. 
Height 2714 inches; width 21% inches 
by Matthew Harris Jouett (1787-1827) 
Matthew Harris Jouett, second son of John and Sallie Robards 
Jouett, was born April 22, 1787, in Mercer County, Ky. After 
studying with Stuart, he returned to Lexington, Ky., and later 


painted portraits at Natchez, Louisville and New Orleans. Jouett 
died August 19, 1827. About 350 portraits by him are recorded. 


GRACE GREENWOOD 
(MRS. SARAH JANE LIPPINCOTT) © 
(1823-1904) 
PAINTED IN WASHINGTON, D. C., IN 1853 
Height 25 inches; width 20 inches 
by Charles Bird King (1785-1862) 

Charles Bird King was born in Newport, R. I., in 1785. He 
studied with Leslie and Allston in London, where he painted 
portraits for several years. In 1822, he established himself in 
Washington, D. C., where he remained until his death in 1862. 


He made a large bequest to the Redwood Library in Newport and 
more than one hundred of his paintings are hanging there. 


THE ARTIST KRIMMEL 
AND HIS FAMILY 


PORTRAITS PAINTED IN GERMANTOWN, PA., ABOUT 1820 


(WILLIAM DUNLAP IN HIs “‘HISTORY OF THE ARTS,’ 1834, DEVOTES 
SEVERAL PAGES TO THE LIFE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF J. L. KRIMMEL) 


Height 25 inches; width 29 inches 
by John Lewis Krimmel (1787-1821) 


John Lewis Krimmel, born in 1787, in Wurtemberg, came to this 
country in 1810 to join his brother, who was a merchant of Phila- 
delphia. Disliking trade, he continued the course he had begun in 
Germany, and painted small portraits. In 1812, he exhibited at 
the Pennsylvania Academy, a picture of Centre Square, Philadel- 
phia, containing numerous small figures, and painted many other 
works of like character, two of which are owned by the Pennsyl- 
vania Academy. He was President of the Society of American 
Artists. He was drowned in Wissahickon Creek in 1821. 


JOHN MARSHALL 
(1755-1835) 


CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT 
FOR 34 YEARS (1801-1835) 


PAINTED FROM LIFE IN WASHINGTON IN 1832 
Height 3534 inches; width 29 inches 


THE RECORD OF THE PAINTING OF THIS PORTRAIT HAS BEEN 
OBTAINED FROM J. R. LAMBDIN’S DIARY 


In James Reid Lambdin’s journal is written the following: 


Early in January 1832 I again visited Washington to paint a 
portrait of Chief Justice Marshall. I had many letters, among them 
one to the Hon. Philips Dodridge, member from the Wheeling 
District, who was kind enough to call with me on the Chief 
Justice. He was boarding with the other members of the Supreme 
Bench at Tench Ringolds, near the White House. The venerable 
Chief received me with great kindness and courtesy, and cheer- 
fully complied with the request that he should sit to me, but, said 
that engaged as he was during the time of court, the only time 
that he could give me would be before breakfast. ‘‘If,’’ he said, 
‘you can be here by 7 o’clock in the morning I will sit to you 
till 8.’’ This arrangement was agreed upon. I was punctual and 
from time to time had as many sittings as I desired. The portrait 
was deemed entirely satisfactory to him and his friends. 

Copied from the Journal by Emma C. Lambdin, daughter of 
James Reid Lambdin. 

Jan’y 2, 1922. 


by James R. Lambdin (1807-1889) 


James Reid Lambdin, a native of Pittsburgh, was born on May 
10, 1807. He studied under Sully, in Philadelphia, at sixteen, and 
two years later was established as an artist in his home city. He 
worked later with success in the Southwest, and at the age of 
thirty, settled in Philadelphia. He painted many portraits in 
Washington, including several of the Presidents, one of Webster 
and one of Chief Justice John Marshall. He was an active officer 
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and President of 
the Artists’ Fund Society there. He died in Philadelphia, January 
31, 1889. 


NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 
(1804-1864) 


DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN NOVELIST 
PAINTED IN WASHINGTON, D. C., IN 1862 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 


In a volume entitled ‘‘Yesterdays with Authors’ there is the 
following reference by James T. Fields to this painting: ‘“Time 
went on, the war broke out, and he (Hawthorne) had not the 
heart to go on with his new romance. During the month of April, 
1862, he made a visit to Washington with his friend Ticknor, to 
whom he was greatly attached. While on this visit to the capital 
he sat to Leutze for a portrait. He took a special fancy to the art- 
ist, and while he was sitting to him, wrote a long letter to me. 
Here is an extract from it: 

‘“‘T stay here only while Leutze finishes a portrait, which I 
think will be the best ever painted of the same unworthy subject. 
One charm it must needs have—an aspect of immortal jollity and 
well-to-doness; for Leutze, when the sitting begins, gives me a 
first-rate cigar, and when he sees me getting tired, he brings out 
a bottle of splendid champagne; and we quaffed and smoked yes- 
terday, in a blessed state of mutual good-will, for three hours and 
a half, during which the picture made a really miraculous prog- 
tess. Leutze is the best of fellows.’ ”’ 


by Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868) 


Emanuel Leutze, historical painter, was born May 4 1816, in 
Germany. Being obliged to leave there on account of political 
opinions, he made Philadelphia his home. His ‘“Western Emigra- 
tion’’ is conspicuous in the National Capitol and ‘Washington 
Crossing the Delaware’ is everywhere familiar through engray- 
ings. He died July 18, 1868, in Washington, D. C. 


MARGARET MARIA LIVINGSTON 
(1783-1818) 
Height 1234 inches; width 9% inches 


Margaret Maria Livingston was the daughter of Chancellor 
Robert R. and Mary Stevens Livingston. She was born in 1783 
and died in 1818. She was said to be very beautiful; Kotzebue, 
the German dramatic poet, saw her in Paris with her father and 
he speaks of her in his memoirs as the “‘youngest sister of Venus”’ 
(Livingstons of Livingston Manor, page 1839. 


by Edward G. Malbone (1777-1807) 


Edward G. Malbone, miniature painter, was born in Newport, 
Rhode Island, August, 1777; received some instruction from a 
local scene painter, and painted in his sixteenth year a portrait of 
considerable merit; established himself in Boston as a miniature 
painter when about nineteen, and formed a close friendship with 
Washington Allston; afterward opened studios successively in 
New York and Philadelphia; in consequence of failing health, 
removed with Allston, in the winter of 1800, to Charleston, S. C., 
where some of his best works were produced; accompanied Allston 
to London in May, 1801, and while there painted his largest and 
most celebrated miniature — ‘‘The Hours,’’ now in Providence 
Atheneum—a group of three beautiful young girls representing 
the Past, the Present, and the Future. On returning to this coun- 
try, Mr. Malbone chose Charleston for his permanent residence, 
visiting the North periodically. In 1806, his health still failing, 
he sought relief in Jamaica, and finding none, started home, but 
died on reaching Savannah, on his way to Newport, May 7, 1807. 
He is ranked as the first among miniature painters. 


CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN 
A NEW YORK EDITOR, AUTHOR AND LAWYER 
(1806-1884) 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Edward D. Marchant (1806-1887) 


Edward D. Marchant, was born in Edgartown, Massachusetts, 
December 16, 1806, and died at Asbury Park, New Jersey, August 
15, 1887. He painted portraits in Philadelphia and New York for 
many years. He also resided in Nashville, Tennessee. He settled 
in Philadelphia in 1845. He first exhibited in 1829 at the National 
Academy of Design; was a member of the Union League Club of 
Philadelphia, where several of his portraits are owned. In 1833 
he was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy. 


ROBERT MONCKTON 
(1726-1782) 
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, 1761 
PAINTED IN 1761 
Height 30!4 inches; width 2414 inches 
by John Mare 


The marriage record of John Mare and Mary Bes in 1738 in New 
York appears in the New York Genealogical and Biographical 
Society Collection, Vol. I., page 162. It is in a list of marriages in 
the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. This is no doubt the 
record of the marriage of the parents of the artist, John Mare. As 
the artist is mentioned first in his father’s will, he was very likely 
the oldest child. If he was born the year following their marriage, 
he would have been twenty-two years of age when he panes the 
portrait of Governor Monckton. The following record of a mort- 
gage on the property of John Mare, Jr., is recorded in the New 
York County Mortgages, Liber No. 2, page 503, Hall of Records, 
New York: 

‘Registered and at the request of Mr. Ennis Graham of the 
City of New York, this roth Day of March, Anno Domini 1772. 

“Memorandum that on the fourth day of December in the year 
of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and seventy-one, John 
Mare of the City of New York, Portrait Painter, did mortgage to 
Ennis Graham of the said city, lot of ground lying and being in 
the City of New York in the community called Mulberry Street, 
Northerly by land belonging to Obadiah Wells, Easterly by land 
the property of John Killman and Southerly by a lot of ground 
belonging to Archibald Gatfield.”’ 

The land described in the above memorandum was No. 18 
Mulberry Street, before 1817. It is called today Lot No. 61. It 
was in the Outward of the city of New York in the block, at that 
time bounded on the west by Mulberry Street formerly Catherine 
Street) on the north by Cross Street (now Park Street) and on the 
east by Mott Street. 

John Mare, Senior, who made his will in 1761, devising prop- 
erty in the Outward, gave a mortgage in 1761 on land in this 
same block and apparently on the same lot or the one adjoining. 

This mortgage is recorded in New York County Mortgages, 
Liber No. 1, page 252, Hall of Records, New York. This mort- 
gage was given to Andrew Marcellus, dated December 7, 1761. It 
was on Mulberry Street, Lot No. 38 Cold number) and is Lot No. 
61 today. 

By comparing these records it will be seen that the John Mare, 
who made his will in 1761, was actually the father of John Mare, 
Jr., Limner. This same Mare property is referred to in Stuyvesant 
Deeds in 1796 in the conveyance of Lot No. 22 on Mott Street. 


Lot No. 22 is described as adjoining ‘‘in the rear Lot No. 39, 
lately belonging to John Mare.”’ 
This is the fourth portrait and the earliest one by John Mare 
thus far identified. The three others were painted in 1766, 1767 
and 1768. 


ALEXANDER ANDERSON 
(1775-1870) 
THE FIRST AMERICAN WOOD ENGRAVER. PAINTED IN 1816 
Height 261% inches; width 21 inches 
by Eliab Metcalfe (1785-1834) 

Eliab Metcalfe was born in Massachusetts in 1785. He was re- 
lated to the famous painter, Chester Harding. Pupil of Samuel L. 
Waldo in 1815. He painted successfully well-known people through 
the South. From 1818 to 1823, his New York studio was at 152 


Broadway. He painted the portrait of the artist, Asher B. Dur- 
and, now in the New York Historical Society. He died in 1834. 


CORALIE LIVINGSTON BARTON 
(1806-1873 ) 


WIFE OF THOMAS PENNANT BARTON 
OF PHILADELPHIA 


PAINTED IN 1833 
Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 
by Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) 


LEVI LINCOLN 
(1749-1820) 


UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER THOMAS JEFFERSON 
PAINTED IN 1816 
by Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) 


KATHARINE AUGUSTA RHODES WARE 


A NEW ENGLAND POET 


(1797-1843) 
PAINTED IN 1828 
Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 
by Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) 

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in Charlestown, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1791. Morse was a portrait painter as well as inventor 
of the telegraph. He lived for many years in New York and died 
there. In art he was a pupil of Washington Allston, with whom 
he went to London and studied under West. He was one of the 
founders of the National Academy of Design and its first Presi- 


dent. He won honors in art also in London. His death occurred 
in New York City in 1872. 


CHARLES LORING ELLIOTT 
(1812-1868) 


DISTINGUISHED PAINTER OF PORTRAITS 
PAINTED BY HIS FRIEND 


Height 27 inches; width 22 inches 
by William S. Mount (1807-1868) 


The artist, William S. Mount, was one of the first genre paint- 
ers in America. He was born at Setauket, Long Island, in 1807, 
studied at the National Academy, and had a studio in New York 
for nearly forty years. He did not exhibit often at the Academy, 
his pictures having a very popular market. He died in 1868. 


JOHN DAVIS 
(1787-1854) 
UNITED STATES SENATOR 1835-1841, 1845-1853 


GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 1834-1835, 1841-1842 
PAINTED IN WASHINGTON IN 1829 


Height 48 inches; width 36 inches 
by John Neagle (1796-1865) 


MRS. JOHN DICKSON 
AUNT OF THE NOTED ARTIST JOHN NEAGLE 
(1783-1836) 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1834 
Height 3014 inches; width 25% inches 
by John Neagle (1796-1865) 


THOMAS W. DYOTT 
(1771-1861) 
PHYSICIAN, BANKER AND MERCHANT OF PHILADELPHIA 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1836 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Neagle (1796-1865) 


ANN C. RUDMAN 
(1804-1881) 
WIFE OF WILLIAM C. RUDMAN OF PHILADELPHIA 
PAINTED IN 1845 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Neagle (1796-1865) 


WILLIAM C. RUDMAN 
(1829-1861) 
SOLDIER AND MERCHANT OF PHILADELPHIA 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Neagle (1796-1865) 


WILLIAM RUSH 
(1756-1832) 
CELEBRATED SCULPTOR OF PHILADELPHIA 
PAINTED IN 1831 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Neagle (1796-1865) 


JOHN ALBERT RYAN 
(1774-1852) 
A NOTED CLERGYMAN AND SCHOLAR 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1829 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Neagle (1796-1865) 


MISS RYAN 
SISTER OF REVEREND JOHN RYAN (1774-1852) 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1829 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Neagle (1796-1865) 

John Neagle was born in Boston in 1796 and died in Philadel- 
Pate in 1865. He was educated in Philadelphia. In 1818 he set up 
ot himself as a portrait painter, removing to Lexington, Ken- 
tucky. After two years in the South he returned to Philadelphia. 
His paintings in Philadelphia and elsewhere gave him high rank. 


What is thought by many to be the best portrait of Gilbert Stuart 
from life was painted by Neagle in Boston in 1825. 


JOHN PHILIP DE HAAS 
(1735-1786) 
MAJOR IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 


BRIGADIER-GENERAL IN THE 
REVOLUTIONARY WAR 


PAINTED IN 1772 
Height 50 inches; width 4o inches 
by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) 


BENJAMIN HARRISON 
(1740-1791) 
SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 


GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, 1782-1786 
PAINTED IN 1783 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) 


TIMOTHY MATLACK 
(1736-1829) 
PATRIOT AND OFFICER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 
Height 3034 inches; width 2534 inches 
by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) 
Charles Willson Peale, a Marylander, born in Queen Anne's 
County, April 15, 1741, consulted Copley in his early studies of 


art, went to London in 1768, and spent two years in West's home, 
and returning, established himself in Philadelphia. He joined the 


Continental Army, and was present as an officer at the battles of 
Trenton and Germantown. Two years after he returned from Eng- 
land he painted his first portrait of Washington. It was painted 
at Mount Vernon in 1772, and is the earliest portrait of Washing- 
ton in existence. He painted fourteen portraits of Washington 
from life, according to his son, Rembrandt. Charles Willson Peale 
died in Philadelphia, February 22, 1827. 


GENERAL MORDECAI GIST 
(1743-1792) 
DISTINGUISHED REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER, BRIGADIER-GENERAL 
IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY IN 1779 
Height 1134 inches; width 934 inches 
by James Peale (1749-1831) 


James Peale, younger brother of Charles Willson Peale, was 
born in Chestertown, Maryland, in 1749. He died in Philadelphia 
in 1831. Although best known as a miniaturist, Peale painted a 
number of fine portraits in oil, of which this is a very good exam- 
ple. Peale was appointed Ensign of Col. Smallwood’s Maryland 
Regiment on the same day, January 14, 1776, that Mordecai Gist 
was commissioned Major of this regiment. Both artist and sitter 
were founders of the Society of Cincinnati of Maryland. 


PETER B. PORTER 
(1773-1844) 


SECRETARY OF WAR UNDER JOHN Q. ADAMS AND 
GENERAL IN WAR OF I812 


PAINTED IN 1828 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) 


RICHARDSON STUART 
A MANUFACTURER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 
(1748-1822) 
Height 20 inches; width 15 inches 
by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) 


GEORGE WASHINGTON 
(1732-1799) 
COPY OF ROBERT EDGE PINES MILITARY PORTRAIT 
FROM REMBRANDT PEALE’'S SALE IN 1862 


Height 30% inches; width 2534 inches 
by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) 


GEORGE WASHINGTON 
(1732-1799) 
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 
AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 


Originally owned by Chancellor De Saussure. First portrait of 
Washington by Rembrandt Peale, painted from life in 1795 by the 
artist in his seventeenth year. 

Washington, during his second term as President of the United 
States, gave the young artist, Rembrandt Peale, three early morn- 
ing sittings in September, 1795, in Philadelphia. When this first 
picture was finished, the artist took it to Charleston, S. C., where 
he painted ten replicas from it. This original was sold by the 
artist to Chancellor De Saussure, of South Carolina, who was a 
personal friend of Washington. It hung in the De Saussure man- 
sion in South Carolina for eighty years. By inheritance it came 
to John De Saussure, the Chancellor’s son. After its exhibition in 
Philadelphia in 1876, the portrait passed from the De Saussure 
ownership to that of the late George L. Sanderson, of Antes Fort, 
Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Sanderson died in 1907, 
and this painting came into the possession of his daughter, Mrs. 
Emily Sanderson Cotter. In recent years, this portrait had been 
loaned to the library at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 


by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) 


Rembrandt Peale, the son of Charles Willson Peale, was born 
in Pennsylvania, in 1778. At the age of seventeen, he painted his 
original portrait of Washington, who gave him three sittings. 
Later he went to England and studied under Benjamin West, and 
after his return, he painted portraits in New York, Philadelphia 
and the South. He made various subsequent trips to Europe, and 
was President of the American Academy, in succession to Trum- 
bull. He died in Philadelphia in 1860. 


JOHN CUSHING 
(1695-1778) 
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS, 


1747 TO 1771 
Height 1434 inches; width 12 inches 


by Henry Pelham (1749-1806) 


Henry Pelham was born in Boston in 1749, and was accidentally 
drowned in Ireland in 1806. He was the son of Peter Pelham and 
his third wife Mary Singleton Copley. He was the half brother 
and pupil of John Singleton Copley. Pelham was the draughtsman 
of Paul Revere’s celebrated Print of the Boston Massacre. 


JOHN SMIBERT 
(1688-1751) 
PORTRAIT PAINTER 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Peter Pelham (1684-1751) 


Peter Pelham, born in England, about 1684. Came to Boston 
with his wife and family in 1726. In 1734, he married his second 
wife, and a child was born in Newport. In 1748, he married the 
widow of Richard Copley, whose son, John Singleton Copley, 
then eleven years of age, was destined to become celebrated as a 
portrait painter, and must have acquired the rudiments of art 
from his stepfather. In the Antiquarian Society at Worcester, is 
the portrait painted by Peter Pelham of the Rev. Increase Mather, 
who died in 1728. He painted other portraits that are known, and 
was the earliest engraver in America. His works in mezzotint are 
highly esteemed, a number of which are engraved from portraits 
by Smibert. He was buried in Boston, December 14, 1751. 


GEN. WILLIAM SMALLWOOD 
(1732-1792) 
MAJOR-GENERAL IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 
GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND (1785-1788) 
PAINTED IN 1788 
Height 2914 inches; width 24 inches 
by Robert Edge Pine (1730-1788) 

The portraitist, Pine, who was born in London in 1730 (or 
1742?), came to America in 1783, with the idea of peas the 


heroes of the Revolution. He made his home in Philadelphia, at 
High and Sixth Streets. Later, Robert Morris, who became his 


patron, built a house for him at Eighth Street. He painted many 
ortraits in Virginia, and at Annapolis made a family group, in 
ull-length, of the family of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. In 
1785, he painted a portrait of President Washington. He died in 
Philadelphia, November 19, 1788. : 


JOHN COCHRAN 
(1730-1807) 


DR. JOHN COCHRAN, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF MILITARY HOSPITALS 
DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 


PAINTED IN 1772 
Height 50 inches; width 40 inches 


In 1760 he married Gertrude Schuyler, only sister of Gen. Philip 
Schuyler, and widow of Peter Schuyler. Her mother was Cornelia 
Van Cortlandt, sister of Anne Van Cortlandt, wife of Stephen 
De Lancey. 

In 1776 he volunteered his services in the hospital department 
and was recommended personally by Washington, who had known 
him during the French War. Early in 1777 he was appointed Chief 
Physician and Surgeon-General of the Army, and in 1781 was pro- 
moted by Congress Director General of Military Hospitals of the 
United States, which office he held to the end of the war. Through- 
out his life he was an intimate friend of Washington. 


by Matthew Pratt (1734-1805) 


This artist was born in Philadelphia, September 23, 1734, the 
son of Henry Pratt, goldsmith, a friend of Doctor Franklin and 
one of his famous Junto. His mother’s brother, James Claypoole, 
“‘limner and painter in general,’’ gave his nephew the first in- 
struction he received in art, from whom, to use Pratt's language, 
‘‘T learned all the different branches of the pay business, par- 
ticularly portrait painting which was my favorite study from ten 
years of age.’’ His earliest work that we know is the portrait of 
his father’s friend, Franklin, painted circa 1756, now in the Manor 
House collection at Yonkers, New York, which is also the earliest 
portrait of the philosopher known. In the summer of 1764, Pratt 
sailed for London, having under his protection his kinswoman, 
the fiancée of Benjamin West, who a few months later Pratt gave 
in marriage to the future President of the Royal Academy of Arts 
in London. For two and a half years Pratt lived in the household 
of West and was West’s first student. It was during this period 
that he painted the picture of ‘“The American School’’—West's 
painting-room, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 
York, and the portraits of West and Mrs. West in the Pennsylvania 
Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. | | 

Matthew Pratt died January 9, 1805, and is buried in Christ 


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Church burying-ground at Fifth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. 
He was the father of Henry Pratt, who built the mansion house 
at Lemon Hill, and also the famous ‘“‘Yellow Mansion’’ that stood 
at Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, for so many years. 
He was the progenitor of many families of prominence in that city. 


THE RETURN OF RIP VAN WINKLE 


This picture was exhibited at the National Academy of Design, 
New York, 1839. 


Height 40 inches; width 50 inches 


“In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat 
demanded who he was, and what was his name; ‘God knows,’ 
exclaimed he at his wits end. ‘I’m not myself, I’m somebody else, 
that’s me yonder. No that’s somebody else got into my shoes. I 
was myself last night, but I fell asleep in the mountains, and they've 
changed my gun, and everything; I’m changed, and I can’t tell 
what's my name, nor who | am.’ ”’ ([rving’s Sketch Book, Vol. 
I, page 78.) 

by John Quidor (1801-1881) 


John Quidor was born at Tappan, Orange County, New York, 
January 26, 1801, and died in Jersey City, December 13, 1881. He 
and Henry Inman were fellow pupils of Jarvis. Quidor’s work 
seems to be rather of a humorous character, and most of his sub- 
jects are from writings of Washington Irving. Quidor is mentioned 
in the New York Directories from 1828 to 1835 as a portrait painter, 
and, after, as an artist. His exhibits at the National Academy of 
Design were from 1828 to 1839. 


RICHARD BELLINGHAM 
(1592-1672) 
GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 
1641-165 6—165 §-1672 
EARLIEST KNOWN PORTRAIT PAINTED IN THIS COUNTRY 
BOSTON, 1641 
Height 2134 inches; width 19 inches 
by William Read (1607-1679) 
The portrait is signed: 


Govr. R. Bellingham, Effiegies 
Delin. Boston Anno. Dom. 1641 
Aktatis 49, W. R. 


In the search for the name of an artist whose initials are W. R., 
capable of doing artistic work, it has been discovered that the 


name of William Read of Boston is mentioned in the “‘Minutes 
of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.’’ At Vol. 
IV., Page 145, May 3, 1665, we find: 

This Court doeth order and appoint Capt. Edward Johnson and 
Mr. William Stephens to draw up a mapp of this colony, which 
they are to do with the greatest care, to call in and make use of 
what artists they shall judge needful; the charge whereof is to be 
defrayed by the County Treasurer. 

That Read was the artist selected appears from the following: 
Page 155, June 1, 1665: 

This Court having employed Mr. William Read of Boston to- 
gether with some other gentlemen of the Court to draw an exact 
mapp of his Majestie’s Colonie of the Massachusetts, which ac- 
cordingly he hath effected, in consideration whereof, this Court 
doeth order the County Treasurer to pay to the said Mr. Read the 
sum of ten pounds in the best pay that is in his hands, upon the 
delivery of one draught more than he hath already given unto this 
Court. 

Of the various William Reads in the Colony at that time; Wil- 
liam Read of Woburn was illiterate, William Read of Weymouth 
was a farmer, another William Read was a sea captain; this leaves 
only one other who could possibly be considered; 

William Read of Batcombe, England, who came over in 1635 
and settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. In 1636 he was elected 
Deputy to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colonie, 
a rather important office for a man only 29 years of age; but it 
brought him in touch with Richard Bellingham who was a mem- 
ber of the same Court from the year of his arrival till his death in 
1672, and who had large real estate holdings in Weymouth. This 
acquaintance was strengthened by both being members together 
in the First Church of Boston for 26 years. 

William Read lived in Weymouth ’till 1646, then in Boston 
till 1674, and died at or near Norwich, Connecticut, 1679. 

Richard Bellingham was elected Governor of the Massachusetts 
Bay Colonie, 1641, the year his portrait was painted as appears 
lettered on the back of the canvas, which fortunately has never 
been relined. 


THE WASHINGTON FAMILY 


PAINTED FROM LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY AND PHILADELPHIA 
BETWEEN 1789 AND 1796 


GEORGE WASHINGTON...) 2 2) ee 1732-1799 
Mrs. GzorGE WASHINGTON. .......- .; 1732-1802 
*GEORGE WASHINGTON ParRKE CusTIS ... . . 1781-1857 
“ELEANOR PARKER Custis). 20.75, 9) ee 1779-1852 


“Brrry”’ Lex, a-colored setvant 9: eee 
*The Two Adopted Grandchildren. 


Height 84 inches; width 111 inches 
Painted by Edward Savage (1761-1817) 


Among the Washington papers in the Department of State at 
the national capital is this letter. 


On June 3, 1798, Savage writes to Washington from ‘‘No. 70 
South 4th Street, Philadelphia:”’ 

Agreeable to Col. Biddle’s order, I delivered four of the 
best a ega of your Family Print. They are chosen out 
of the first that was printed. Perhaps you may think that 
they are too dark, but they will change lighter after hang- 

ing two or three months. * * * The likenesses of the young 
. people are not much like what they are at present. The Cop- 
j per-plate was begun and half finished from the likenesses 
4 which I painted in New York in the year 1789. I could not 
make the alterations in the copper to make it like the paint- 
ing which I finished in Philadelphia in the year 1796. The 
portraits of yourself and Mrs. Washington are generally 
thought to be likenesses. * * * In consequence of its suc- 
cess and being generally approved of, I continued the sub- 
scription. * * * As soon as I have one printed in colours I 
shall take the liberty to send it to Mrs. Washington for her 
acceptance. I think she will like it better than a plain print. 
Mrs. Savage joins me in respectful compliments to Mrs. 
Washington.” 


To this letter from Savage, Washington replied: 


Mt. Vernon, 17th June, 98. 

Mr. Ed. Savage 

Sir,—I have been favored with your letter of the 3rd in- 
stant and pray you to receive my thanks for your attention 
in chusing the prints which you sent to Col. Biddle for my 
use. As Mrs. Washington also does for your politeness in 
presenting her one in colours. We are pleased to hear that 
the undertaking has succeeded so well. Col. Biddle I pre- 
sume has paid you for the first four, being so directed. 

Mrs. Washington offers her compts to you and Mrs. 
Savage. 


I am your Obdt Servt 
Go. WasHINGTON 


Rembrandt Peale in his lecture on Washington Portraits, refer- 
ring to The Washington Family picture, by Edward Savage, stated 
| that Washington gave sittings for it in Philadelphia. 
: A letter to the late S. P. Avery, Jr., from Moses Kimball, of 
Boston, in 1891, stated that The Washington Family had been in 
his possession more than fifty years, and came to him in the col- 
lection of the New England Museum that he purchased, and 
which he understood came direct from Savage. 

Another letter, of November, 1892, from the late Charles H. 


Savage, a grandson of the artist, confirms the dates given by Moses 
Kimball in 1891. 

The Washington Family (84 inches x 111 inches) by Savage 
was purchased in 1891 from its owner, Moses Kimball, of Boston, 
by Mr. Avery and sold soon after to the late William F. Have- 
meyer of New York City. 


ENGRAVED BY THE ARTIST, 1798 


The Washington Family group was engraved by Edward Savage 
himself and published March ro, 1798. | 

It is interesting to note that in Martha Washington’s will, 
dated March 4, 1802, she made a special bequest to her grand- 
daughter, Eleanor Parke Lewis, mée Custis, of “‘a print of the 
Washington Family.’’ Upon the back of another engraving of the 
Family portrait is this inscription, ‘Presented to Mrs. Elizabeth © 
Washington by George Washington Parke Custis, July 4, 1802. 

The popularity and sale of the artist’s engraving of his ““Wash- 
ington Family’’ were so great that a half-dozen publishing estab- 
lishments in the United States produced copies with variations 
in black and white mezzotint, aquatint and stipple, while litho- 
graphs in bright tints were printed later and sold, which bore but 
slight resemblance to the original composition and never dupli- 
cated the colors employed in the oil painting by the artist. 


by Edward Savage (1761-1817) 


Edward Savage was born in Princeton, Worcester County, Mas- 
sachusetts, November 26, 1761, and died there July 6, 1817. Savage 
was originally a goldsmith, a trade that has graduated not a few 
engravers. He could not, however, have followed it for any great 
length of time, as he was only twenty-eight when he left Massa- 
chusetts for New York, with a letter from President Willard of 
Harvard to Washington, November 7, 1789, requesting him to 
sit for his portrait for the University, where it hangs today. In 
1791 Savage went to London and studied under Benjamin West. 
He returned to the United States in 1794 and was married in Bos- 
ton on October 13, of the same year. Soon after he settled in Phila- 
delphia and in July of 1795, he exhibited the first panorama ever 
shown in that city. It represented London and Westminster. It 
was about this time that Savage joined forces with Daniel Bowen 
in the New York Museum, which in 1795 was taken to Boston 
and opened as the Columbian Museum. The museum with a por- 
tion of its contents was burned in 1803. In 1806 Bowen and W. 
M. S. Doyle erected the Museum Building in Tremont Street, 
which the next year was destroyed by fire, rebuilt, and kept up 
until 1825, when the Columbian Museum passed to the New Eng- 
land Museum. In 1840 it was purchased by Moses Kimball, who 
maintained it as the Boston Museum for more than half a century. 
To the gallery of this museum the heirs of Savage contributed 
several important American paintings and portraits, including 
The Washington Family. 


STEPHEN pELANCEY 
(1663-1741) 
PAINTED IN 1734 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
He was the original owner of Fraunces Tavern, New York City. 
Trinity Church received its first tower clock from him, and New 
York City’s first fire engine was the joint gift of himself and his 


partner. A prominent merchant, was active in public affairs, and 
became a social leader. 


by John Smibert (1688-1751) 


ALEXANDER GARDEN 
(1685-1756) 
AUTHOR AND RECTOR 
PAINTED IN 1734 
Height 29 inches; width 24 inches 
by John Smibert (1688-1751) 


GOVERNOR WILLIAM SHIRLEY 
(1693-1771) 
COLONIAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 
1741~1745-1753 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Smibert (1688-1751) 


SUSANNAH pELANCEY WARREN 
(Died 1771) 


LADY WARREN WAS THE DAUGHTER OF STEPHEN AND 
ANNE VAN CORTLANDT DE LANCEY. MARRIED 
SIR PETER WARREN IN 1731 
PAINTED IN 1746 


Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 
by John Smibert (1688-17 SI) 


Smibert was a Scottish painter, born in Edinburgh, in 1688, 
who joined Bishop Berkeley in the dream of founding a universal 
college in the Bermudas, and arrived at Newport, Rhode Island, 
in 1729. The dream collapsing, he settled in Boston, taking there 
with him many copies he had made of European old masters, 
which, with his other works, had an influence on Allston, which 


Allston acknowledged. He probably also had an influence on 
Copley, who was fourteen when Smibert died. It has been said of 
Smibert, ‘“The best portraits we have of eminent magistrates and 
divines of New England and New York who lived between 1729 
and 1751 are from his pencil.’’ Smibert died in Boston, in 1751. 


FRANCES LUDLUM MORRIS 
(1766-1852) 
WIFE OF ROBERT MORRIS OF FORDHAM, NEW YORK 
PAINTED IN 1838 


Height 36 inches; width 29 inches 
by Frederick R. Spencer (1806-1875) 


Frederick R. Spencer was born in the town of Lenox, Madison 
County, New York, on the 7th of June, 1806. His ed were 
from the New England States: His father, General Ichabod S. 
Spencer, from Massachusetts, and his mother from Connecticut. 
Mr. Spencer experienced the usual boy’s inclination for imitating 
prints, and at the age of fifteen, being with his father in Albany, 
saw, for the first time, a gallery of portraits. In 1825, he came to 
New York to study, where he drew from the casts of the American 
Academy, and had the favor of the President, and his instruction 
in the methods he was to pursue. The young painter returned 
home and painted at his father’s house, but in 1827 commenced 
professionally at a village in the neighborhood. He painted in 
Utica, but finally made New York his headquarters where he 
continued painting. 


JAN STRYCKER 


(1617-1697) 
MAGISTRATE PROMINENT IN THE EARLY LIFE OF 
NEW AMSTERDAM 


PAINTED IN 1655 BY HIS ARTIST BROTHER 
JACOBUS GERRITSEN STRYCKER 
WHO DIED IN 1687 


Height 2134 inches; width 16% inches 


The portrait is signed on the front: AE TATIS 38 
1655 
On the back of the canvas is written: Given to Altje by her 
father Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker, who himself drew this likeness 
of his brother Jan. 
(Signed) J. C. Van VoorHEEs 


‘Johannes Coerte Van Voorhees was Altje Strycker’s nephew. 
He was born in 1686 and died in 1757. He inherited the portrait 
and it has been in the Strycker family for seven generations,’ 
until 1923. 

by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker 


ADRIAN VAN DER DONCK 
(1618-1655) 


THE FOUNDER OF YONKERS, N. Y. 
PAINTED ABOUT 1654 


Height 23 inches; width 18 inches 
by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker (1687) 


Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker, farmer, trader, magistrate and 
““‘limner,’’ was born at Ruinen, province of Drenthe, in the Neth- 
erlands. His wife was Ytie Huybrechts, possibly related to the 
lady of the same surname, whose daughter at about the same time 
married Titus van Rijn, the son of a greater ‘‘limner,’’ Rembrandt. 
Strycker came to Netherland in 1651, a gentleman of considerable 
means and decided culture, and after a successful career, died in 
October, 1687. We know much of his office holding—he was 
Burgher in 1653 and afterwards he was Alderman of New Am- 
sterdam, Attorney General and Sheriff of the Dutch towns on 
Long Island up to August 1673. Very little of his work as an art- 
ist is known. Four of his portraits have been identified. He left a 
son, Gerrit, who became Sheriff of King’s County in 1688, and a 
brother, Jan, who also left descendants. The pate in the present 
exhibition had been in the Strycker family for seven generations. 


PORTRAITS PAINTED IN AMERICA 


By Gilbert Stuart 
(1794-1826) 


JOSEPH ANTHONY 
(1738-1798) 
PROMINENT MERCHANT OF PHILADELPHIA. UNCLE 
AND BENEFACTOR OF GILBERT STUART 


THE ORIGINAL PORTRAIT PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1794 
Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


A letter written in New York, November 2, 1794, by Gilbert 
Stuart to his uncle, Joseph Anthony, in Philadelphia, alludes to 
the portrait shown in this exhibition as follows: ‘“The object of 
my journey is only to secure a picture of the President and finish 
yours.’’ This canvas had remained in the possession of Joseph 
Anthony’s descendants in Philadelphia until 1923. In later years, 
Stuart painted the portraits of Joseph Anthony, Jr. and Joseph 
Anthony, 3d. 


JOHN BAPTISTA ASHE 
(1748-1802) 
COLONEL IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 
MEMBER OF CONGRESS, 1789-1793 


ELECTED GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1802 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA CIRCA 1800 


Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


WILLIAM CONSTABLE 


(1752-1803) 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1796 


FRIEND OF WASHINGTON, HAMILTON, JAY AND LAFAYETTE 
PARTNER OF GOUVERNEUR MORRIS 


Height 2914 inches; width 24 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


JOSEPH COOLIDGE 
(1773-1840) 

PAINTED IN BOSTON IN 1820 
Height 28 inches; width 22% inches 
A WELL-KNOWN MERCHANT OF BOSTON 

by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


MATILDA CAROLINE CRUGER 
(1776-1812) 
PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1793 
Height 3614 inches; width 2814 inches 


She first married Lawrence Reid Yates in 1795. Her second alli- 
ance was with Judge Henry Walton in 1800. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


MRS. ANDREW DEXTER 
(1787-1819) 
PAINTED IN BOSTON IN 1808 
Height 2914 inches; width 2334 inches 


Born Charlotte Morton, a daughter of Mrs. Perez Morton, 
whose portrait was painted several times by Stuart. She married 
Andrew Dexter, of Boston, in 1808. Mr. Dexter went South and 
founded the city of Montgomery, Alabama. She joined him there, 
and died in 1819 and was buried in the cemetery of that city. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


‘“COUNSELLOR” JOHN DUNN 
NOTED LINGUIST AND LAWYER 
PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1798 
Height 29 inches; width 24 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


A member of the Irish Parliament, Borough of Randalstown, 
County Antrim, from 1783 to 1797. He came to the United States, 
says Mason, Ladd perhaps wholly, to study the Indian language, 
and remained here approximately three years. 

This portrait and a portrait of Washington, Athenzum type, 
were taken back to England by Counsellor Dunn, where they re- 
mained in his family until 1909, when they were both brought 
back to this country, where they are at present. 


CYRUS GRIFFIN 
(1749-1810) 


MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1778 TO I781I AND 
MADE ITS LAST PRESIDENT IN 1788 


PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY CIRCA 1794 
Height 17 inches; width 14 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


JAMES LLOYD 
(1728-1810) 
PAINTED IN BOSTON CIRCA 1808 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 


Mason, in his ‘‘Life of Stuart,’’ says of Dr. Lloyd that he stood 
at the head of the medical profession in Boston in his time. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


GEORGE POLLOCK 
(1762-1820) 
PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1793 
Height 36 inches; width 28% inches 
George was the brother of Ann Elizabeth Pollock, later the 
wife of Doctor William Hartigan, of Dublin, Ireland. He married 
Catherine Yates, daughter of Richard Yates, his business partner 
in New York City, in 1787. He was a member of the Chamber of 
Commerce. Both Dunlap and Tuckerman refer to the portraits of 
the Pollock and Yates families by Gilbert Stuart which are now 
for the first time publicly exhibited. Gilbert Stuart himself, writ- 
ing on November 2, 1794, to his uncle, Joseph Anthony, in Phila- 
delphia, thus expresses his obligations to the Pollock family of 
Ireland and the United States: ‘“To their house I am indebted for 
more civilities than to the world beside.”’ 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


MRS. GEORGE POLLOCK 


PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1793 
Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 


Born Catherine Yates, daughter of Richard Yates. Married 
George Pollock in 1787, and died October 31, 1805. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


MRS. WILLIAM ROBINSON 
(ANNE CALVERT STUART) 

A RELATIVE OF MARTHA WASHINGTON 
PAINTED IN BOSTON CIRCA 1812 
Height 2814 inches; width 2234 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


EDWARD STOW 
(1768-1847) 
PAINTED IN BORDENTOWN, NEW JERSEY, IN 1803 
Height 2934 inches; width 23% inches 
Born in the city of New York. He was the intimate friend and 


correspondent of Gilbert Stuart and the artist visited him in his 
Boston and other homes. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


WILLIAM THORNTON 
(1761-1826) 
PAINTED IN WASHINGTON, D. C., IN 1804 


Architect of the first Capitol at Washington, D.C., and designer 
of the Octagon House there. 


Height 287 inches; width 2434 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


MRS. WILLIAM THORNTON 
(1775-1865) 
PAINTED IN WASHINGTON, D. C., IN 1804 
WIFE OF THE NOTED ARCHITECT OF WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Height 2876 inches; width 2434 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER 
(1765-1839) 
PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1794 
Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 


Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1795, Major General 
Militia 1801. He married Margaret Schuyler, the daughter of 
General Philip Schuyler, in 1783. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


LAWRENCE REID YATES 
PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1793 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
Was in business with his brother, Richard Yates, in Duke Street, 
New York, until 1796. He was a member of St. George’s Society 


in 1786. Married Miss Matilda Caroline Cruger in 1795. Died in 
1796, and was buried in Trinity churchyard this city. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


RICHARD YATES 
(1732-1808) 
PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1793 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 


Richard Yates was the senior member of the mercantile firm of 
Yates & Pollock, 97 Front Street, New York. His younger brother 
was Lawrence Reid Yates and his daughter, Catherine, became 
the wife of George Pollock, his partner. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


MRS. RICHARD YATES 
(Born 1736) 


PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1793 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 


Born Catherine Brass, married Richard Yates, December 5, 1757. 
She became the wife of the senior member of the firm of Yates & 
Pollock, New York. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


GEORGE WASHINGTON 
(1732-1799) 

This first painting of Washington from life by Stuart in Phila- 
delphia in 1795 is known as the Vaughan portrait and was taken 
to England in that year and engraved by Holloway and published 
there in 1796. It was purchased from the Vaughan family in 1851 
by Joseph Harrison of Philadelphia and brought back to this 
country by him, remaining in the Harrison family until 1912. 


Height 2934 inches; width 2334 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


Gilbert Stuart, a Rhode Islander, was born in 1755, and went to 
Scotland at sixteen, but his instructor, Cosmo Hamilton, dying, 
the American artist had to work his way home. He went back to 
London before he was twenty, however, and studied under Ben- 
jamin West, living at the English capital for thirteen years, and 
then for five years in Dublin. In 1793-1794, he lived in New York, 
then in Philadelphia for eight years, and in Washington for three 
years. From 1806 until his death, Boston was his home. He died 
there in 1828. 


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PORTRAITS PAINTED IN EUROPE 
by Gilbert Stuart 


FROM 


1779 TO 1790 


LIEUTENANT ROBERT CALDER 
(1745-1818) 
PAINTED IN LONDON CIRCA 1779 
MADE BARONET IN 1798—ADMIRAL IN BRITISH NAVY IN 1810 
Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


SIR FRANCIS N. P. CONYNGHAM 
(1766-1832) 

PAINTED IN DUBLIN CIRCA 1790 
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF LOWER CANADA FROM 1822 TO 1828 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


JAMES MASSY DAWSON 
(1736-1790) 


FROM BALLINACOURTE, IRELAND 
PAINTED IN DUBLIN CIRCA 1788 


Height 2834 inches; width 2334 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


SIR JOHN DICK 
(1719-1804) 
PAINTED IN LONDON IN 1782 


Sir John Dick received the order of the Knight of St. Anne of 
Russia while British Consul at Leghorn, Italy. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


DR. WILLIAM HARTIGAN 
(1756-1812) 
PAINTED IN DUBLIN CIRCA 1790 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 


A noted Surgeon and member of the Faculty of Trinity College, 
Dublin. 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


BETSEY HARTIGAN 
PAINTED IN DUBLIN CIRCA 1790 
Height 303 inches; width 2514 inches 
Born Ann Elizabeth Pollock in 1758. Married Dr. William 
Hartigan of Dublin. Through her brothers, George Pollock and 
Carlisle Pollock, Gilbert Stuart met the distinguished sitters that 
he painted after he returned to New York in 1793. Among these 
were John Jay, Stephen Van Rensselaer, J. J. Astor, Matthew 


Clarkson, William Bayard, Colonel Giles, William Constable, 
Miss Cruger and the Yates and Pollock families. 


by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS 
(1723-1792) 
FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGLAND 
PAINTED IN LONDON IN 1784 
Height 36 inches; width 30 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


ROBERT THEW 
THE ENGLISH ENGRAVER 
(1758-1802) 
Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


LUKE WHITE 
(1740-1824) 
OF KILLAKEE, IRELAND. PAINTED IN DUBLIN IN 1790 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) 


JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 
(1767-1848) 
SIXTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1825-1829 
PAINTED FROM LIFE IN WASHINGTON, D. C., IN 1824 


Height 24% inches; width 20 inches 
by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 


THOMAS ALSTON 
(1801-1833 ) 


OF SOUTH CAROLINA 
PAINTED IN 1826 
Height 3034 inches; width 2534 inches 
by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 


MAJOR THOMAS BIDDLE 
(1790-1831) 
OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, COMMISSIONED IN 1814 
Height 36 inches; width 28 inches 
by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 


DOCTOR WILLIAM GIBSON 


A NOTED AMERICAN SURGEON, SOLDIER AND WRITER 
OF PHILADELPHIA 


(1788-1868) 
PAINTED IN 1820 
Height 17% inches; width 14 inches 
by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 


JULIANNA HAZELHURST 
(1802-1876) 


MARRIED REV. CALEB J. GOOD, EPISCOPAL MINISTER 
OF WEST CHESTER, PA. 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 


FRANCIS HOPKINSON 
(1796-1870) 
A GRANDSON OF THE SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 
AND SON OF THE COMPOSER OF ‘‘HAIL COLUMBIA — 


PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1834 
Height 20 inches; width 16 inches 
by Thomas Sully (2783-1872) 


ANN BIDDLE HOPKINSON 
(1800-1863 ) 


WIFE OF FRANCIS HOPKINSON AND 
DAUGHTER OF CHARLES BIDDLE 


PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1834 
by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 


JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE 
(1757-1823) 
AS RICHARD III 


PAINTED IN 1867 AFTER PORTRAIT BY GILBERT STUART 
AS AN ACTOR HE EXCELLED IN THE HIGHEST ORDER OF TRAGEDY 


Height 21 inches; width 16 inches 
by Thomas Sully (2783-1872) 


ABRAHAM KINTZING 
(1763-1835) 
MERCHANT OF PHILADELPHIA. PAINTED IN 1815 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 


ROBERT WALSH 
(1785-1858) 
JOURNALIST AND EDITOR OF PHILADELPHIA. PAINTED IN 1814 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches: 
by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) 
Thomas Sully was born in England in 1783, and came to this 
country when a youth with his parents. The family settled at 


Charleston, South Carolina. Sully established himself in Phila- 
delphia, as an artist, at the age of twenty-five. After a short resi- 


dence in New York and Boston, and after having received while 
in Boston in 1807 some instruction from Gilbert Stuart, he went 
to London in 1809 and studied for two years under Benjamin West, 
returning to New York, but making Philadelphia the home of his 


later years. He died there in 1872. 


JOSIAS ALLSTON 
(1731-1776) 
UNCLE OF THE ARTIST, WASHINGTON ALLSTON 
A NOTED PLANTER OF GEORGETOWN, SG; 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Jeremiah Theus (1719-1774) 


JOHANN De KALB 
(1721-1780) 
MAJOR-GENERAL IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 
177771780 
PAINTED IN 1768 
Height 2814 inches; width 24 inches 
by Jeremiah Theus (1719-1774) 


ISAAC MOTTE 
(1738-1795) 


OFFICER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 
MEMBER OF STATE CONVENTION THAT RATIFIED 
THE U. S. CONSTITUTION 


APPOINTED BY WASHINGTON, NAVAL COMMANDER OF 
THE PORT OF CHARLESTON, S. C. 


Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by Jeremiah Theus (1719-1774) 


Jeremiah Theus, although well known in his day, and likened 
to Copley, owing to the manner of his painting in some of his 
portraits, has since then been little known or heard of until very 
recent years, when his works have been coming to light again, 
and only too often have been attributed to Copley. He was born 
in Switzerland, and came to this country in 1739. In the following 
year, he was established in a studio, and painting portraits at 
Charleston, South Carolina. He remained in America until his 
death, May 18, 1774. 


WILLIAM ROGERS 
(1761-1817) 
PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1804 


A prominent shipping merchant of New York. He married, in 
1801, Mrs. Anne Cruger, daughter of Peter Markoe. The William 
Rogers country estate was located at West 102nd Street and his 
city residence was 57 Wall Street. 


Height 30!% inches; width 25 inches 
by John Trumbull (1756-1843) 


Colonel John Trumbull—he attained the rank in the service un- 
der Washington, whose forces he joined before he was twenty, 
and he bore the title to the last—was born in Lebanon, Connect- 
icut, June 6, 1756. He was a son of the Governor of that State, 
‘Brother Jonathan’ Trumbull. Washington utilized Trumbull’s 
ability in draughtsmanship in the making of topographical draw- 
ings of the British works about Boston. Trumbull was educated 
at Harvard. After the Revolution, he went to London to study 
art under West, was arrested and jailed in retaliation for the exe- 
cution of Major André, and was released only upon the surety of 
West and Copley. He came home, but returned to West’s studio 
in 1784, coming back in 1789 to New York, but spending the years 
from 1794 to 1804 and from 1808 to 1816 abroad. He preceded 
Rembrandt Peale in the Presidency of the American Academy. He 
died in New York, November 10, 1843. 


ZACHARIAH SCHOONMAKER 
(1784-1818) 
LAWYER OF KINGSTON, N. Y. 
LIEUTENANT IN WAR OF 1812 


PAINTED IN 1816 
Height 26% inches; width 2214 inches 
by John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) 


JOHN SUDAM 
(1782-1835) 

LAWYER OF KINGSTON, NEW YORK, AND STATE SENATOR, 
1823-1825, AGAIN, 1833-1835. REGENT OF THE 
STATE UNIVERSITY FROM 1829 TO THE 
DATE OF HIS DEATH 


PAINTED IN 1830 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) 


John Vanderlyn was born and died at Kingston, New York. His 
birthday was October 15, 1775, and his death occurred on Septem- 
ber 24, 1852. Aaron Burr patronized him in his youth, helped him 
to secure instruction and to go to Europe, and when Gilbert Stuart 
returned from England to this country in 1793, and painted Burt’s 
portrait, Vanderlyn had coveted opportunity to see the great 
American master at work. In 1796, Vanderlyn went to Paris, and 
he first exhibited at the Salon in 1800. He returned to America for 
two years, but in 1803 again went to Europe and did not come 
home until 1816. 


JOHANNES VAN VECHTEN 
(1676-1742) 
PAINTED IN 1719 
Height 4514 inches; width 38 inches 
by Pieter Vanderlyn (1687-1778) 

This portrait of Johannes Van Vechten, 1676-1742, was painted 
when the subject was 43 years of age. The bulletin of the New 
York Historical Society of October, 1921, names Pieter Vanderlyn 
as the painter of the New York State portraits long unrecognized. 
Nearly forty portraits have been located among descendants of 
eatly Dutch families in this country. This painting of Johannes 
Van Vechten is the first one ever publicly shown with the attri- 


bution as given here. The noted American ans painter, John 
Vanderlyn, 1775-1852, was the grandson of Pieter Vanderlyn. 


REBECCA SANFORD BARLOW 


OF PROMINENT REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTRY 
(1747-1839) 
PAINTED IN 1810 
Height 2634 inches; width 2034 inches 
by Samuel L. Waldo (1783-1861) 


R. G. LIVINGSTON DE PEYSTER 
(1795-1873) 


GRADUATE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1815 
PROMINENT NEW YORK MERCHANT 


PAINTED IN 1828 
Height 33 inches; width 25 inches 
by Samuel L. Waldo (1783-1861) 


The painter, Samuel L. Waldo, was a native of Connecticut, 
where he was born in 1783, in the town of Windham. He went to 
London in 1806, joined John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West, 
with whom he studied. Returning to America in 1809, he spent 
the remainder of his life in New York, where he died in 1861. 


SIR PETER WARREN 
(1703-1752) 
PAINTED IN 1731 
Height 4454 inches; width 3638 inches 


Made citizen of New York in 1731. Was the first proprietor of 
Greenwich Village. Sir Peter was married in 1731 at Trinity Church 
to Susan deLancey, daughter of Stephen deLancey. He was naval 
hero at the fall of Louisburg in 1745 and was made Rear-Admiral 
the same year. Born in Warrentown, County Heath, Ireland, in 
1703. He died July 29, 1752. 

In 1731, the year this portrait of Sir Peter Warren was painted, 
he with James deLancey and others were presented with the free- 
dom of the city. He was a member of the Council of New York 
under Governor Clinton from 1743 until his death in 1752. Sir 
Peter’s country house, built in 1740, was situated on the property 
now bounded by Bleecker, Fourth, Charles and Perry Streets. It 
was the center of a large estate which extended down to the Hud- 
son River. Here in 1753, the Subscription Plate was run for. This 
was one of the earliest horse races held within the limits of 
Manhattan. : 

by John Watson (1685-1768) 


John Watson came to the Colonies in 1715 and set up his easel 
in the capital of New Jersey, Perth Amboy. The year in which he 
was born is found by the date of his death engraved on his tomb- 
stone, and the age at which he died. He was born in 1685 and died 
in 1768. 

Sir Peter Warren, through his marriage into the de Lancey 
family, had connections living in Perth Amboy, the home of the 
attist. For Elizabeth Van Cortlandt, youngest sister of Mrs. Ste- 
phen de Lancey, the mother of Mrs. Warren had matried in 1727 


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the Rev. William Skinner, the first rector of St. Peter’s Church, 
Perth Amboy. Later, one of his sons, Lieut.-Col. William Skinner 
matried his cousin Susan, youngest daughter of Sir Peter Warren. 
The Barberie and Kearny families also lived in Perth Amboy. They, 
too, wete connections of the de Lanceys, other branches of the 
family included. 

William Dunlap in his History of ‘“The Arts of Design,’’ Vol. 
I, devotes four pages to the career of the artist John Watson. 


PHILIP VAN CORTLANDT 
(1749-1831) 
BRIGADIER-GENERAL OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. MEMBER OF 


CONGRESS 1793-1809. A FOUNDER AND FIRST 
TREASURER OF THE SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI 


PAINTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1795 
Height 26 inches; width 204 inches 
by Adolph Ulric Wertmuiller (1751-1811) 


Adolph Ulric Wertmiiller was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 
February 18, 1751, and died near Wilmington, Delaware, October 
5, 1811, and is buried in the old Swedes’ churchyard, Philadelphia. 
When twenty-one, he left Stockholm for Paris to put himself under 
his cousin Roslin, one of the chief portrait painters of the French 
capital, and subsequently received instruction from Vien. He was 
admitted a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculp- 
ture July 30, 1784, upon the presentation of portraits of Bachelier 
and Caffiere, having the year previous been brevetted First Painter 
of the King of Sweden. Upon this appointment he painted for 
Gustavus II “‘Ariadne’’ and ‘‘Marie Antoinette with Her Two 
Children in the Garden of the Little Trianon,’’ both now in the 
National Museum, Stockholm. In 1787 he painted his famous pic- 
ture of ‘‘Danae Receiving Jupiter in a Shower of Gold.’’ Driven 
from France by the exigencies of the Revolution, he sought a home 
in America, reaching Philadelphia May 13, 1794. Here, in August, 
Washington sat to him. He was called to Sweden in 1796 by the 
death of his agent, but he left his precious portrait of Washington 
in the care of the lady destined to become his wife, having made 
replicas of it for Messrs. Greenleaf and Robert Morris. He returned 
to America in November, 1800, and on January 8th following, he 
married Lydia Henderson, a granddaughter of Gustavus Hesselius, 
the artist. His original portrait of Washington was, after the 
death of his widow, three months later, sold at auction in Phila- 
delphia. 

his portrait of Gen. Van Cortlandt was painted in 1795 by 
Wertmiiller in Philadelphia, where the General was then servin 
as a member of Congress. : 


ELIZABETH BECKFORD 
COUNTESS OF EFFINGHAM 
(1725-1791) 

Height 57 inches; width 4534 inches 
by Benjamin West (1738-1820) 


ELIZABETH GORDON 
COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND 
(1765-1839) 
PAINTED IN LONDON IN 1797 


by Benjamin West (1738-1820) 


BENJAMIN WEST 
(1738-1820) 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
Self Portrait 


A portrait of the distinguished American artist, by himself, at 
the age of twenty-two. President of the Royal Academy of Eng- 
land, succeeding Sir Joshua Reynolds, from 1792-1815. 

Benjamin West was born near Springfield, Chester (now Dela- 
wate) County, Pennsylvania, in 1738. At an early age he com- 
menced painting portraits in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He contin- 
ued his art in Philadelphia in 1756, and in 1758 came to New York 
City. Later he went to London and had great success with his 
painting. In 1792 he succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as President 
of the Royal Academy of England. He was a friend of Peale, Stuart 
and Trumbull. West never returned to the United States. He died 
in London in 1820, and was buried there in St. Paul’s Cathedral. 


CAPT. ARCHIBALD KENNEDY 


(1718-1794) 
PAINTED IN NEW YORK CITY CIRCA 17§2 


Height 50 inches; width 40 inches 


Original owner of No. 1 Broadway, New York City, at one time 
the best-known Colonial residence of New York and a landmark 
as imperishable as Bowling Green, was built and occupied by 
Capt. Kennedy about 1760. The house had many historic associa- 
tions and is reproduced in every history of New York City. Here, 
in July 20, 1776, Washington received Col. Patterson, Adj. Gen. 


of Lord Howe, and was offered by Col. Patterson the famous letter 
addressed to George Washington, Esq., etc., etc., etc. Washing- 
ton refusing to receive it, remarked that three et ceteras might 
mean everything, that they also implied anything! During the 
British occupation of New York, it was the headquarters of Sir 
Henry Clinton, Sir Guy Carleton and Sir William Howe. It was 
in a house in Capt. Kennedy’s garden at the rear of No. 1 that 
Robert Fulton lived and died. 


by John Wollaston 


This portrait of Capt. Kennedy was painted in New York, about 
1752, which is in accordance with his appearance and costume. 
That the artist was painting here at that date is corroborated by 
a record in the minutes of the Vestry Board of Trinity Church 
made on April 1, 1752. His New York work was done between 
1751 and 1757, when he was fresh from his European training. 
They are in his best manner. 


LEWIS MORRIS 
(1726-1798) 
BRIGADIER-GENERAL OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 


MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 1775 
SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 


PAINTED IN NEW YORK CIRCA 1755 
Height 301 inches; width 2534 inches 
by John Wollaston 


MARY WALTON MORRIS 
(1727-1794) 
WIFE OF COL. LEWIS MORRIS OF MORRISANIA, Nixes 
SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 


PAINTED IN NEW YORK CIRCA 1755 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Wollaston 


JOHN STEVENS 
(1708-1792) 
MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 
1784 
FATHER OF JOHN STEVENS (1749-1838) 
OF CASTLE POINT 
Height 30 inches; width 25 inches 
by John Wollaston 
John Wollaston, an English portrait painter, visited the Colo- 
nies in the middle of the eighteenth century. Wollaston painted 
a great many portraits in New York, Philadelphia and the South 
from 1750 to 1767. His best portraits seem to have been painted 
in New York between 1751 and 1757. 


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